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Welcome back to the coverage of the
first full day of competition of the | 0:00:40 | 0:00:45 | |
Winter Olympics, 2018. The scene in
Pyeongchang, where every venue has | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
been lit up. It is sensational, the
crowds that have been at the short | 0:00:49 | 0:00:54 | |
track and the long track speed
skating, crowds have gathered for | 0:00:54 | 0:00:59 | |
the ski jumping, we will be showing
you that. Action in the luge, the | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
headlines are that the host nation
South | 0:01:03 | 0:01:10 | |
South Korea have won their first
gold medal, the 1500 metres in the | 0:01:11 | 0:01:16 | |
men's short speed skating. We have
our guests in the studio, huge | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
relief and delight that Elise
Christie is safely through her | 0:01:20 | 0:01:26 | |
qualification for the 500 metres
speed skating? We can all breathe a | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
sigh of relief! She has dusted off
the cobwebs, smashing her first | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
race, she looks really relaxed and
happy. She set a fast time, an | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
Olympic record at the time, she was
overtaken but she will be second | 0:01:37 | 0:01:42 | |
fastest going into the quarterfinals
on Tuesday. Yes, in all-important | 0:01:42 | 0:01:47 | |
lane one, it gives her a clean
start, she can get in front. Leading | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
from start to finish. She told us
how nervous she felt in her | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
interview afterwards can sometimes
it's getting going, that's what you | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
want to do. You need that first day,
the first moment on ice done and | 0:01:58 | 0:02:04 | |
dusted. Then, it's a sigh of relief,
you can concentrate and feel calm. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:09 | |
You could see it in her face. It was
good to see. Those nerves, that you | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
are at the Olympic Games, it plays
on the minds of a dot of athletes. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
This is her third Olympics now, but
when you have been you don't know | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
what it is like to be at an
Olympics. The extra nerves playing | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
on you, your legs are extra shaky,
you haven't quite got it. I'm sure | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
that having the first day, the first
moment on ice, now she's a happy | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
girl. And it is a normal
competition, you race against the | 0:02:35 | 0:02:41 | |
same people... But it isn't really!
And she's done such a good job by | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
saying she had redemption, she wants
to do this for friends and family | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
but that in itself is pressure if
you want to do it for other people. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
Let's give you an idea of the timing
of events over the next few hours | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
here on BBC One... We will be
catching up with the action from the | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
second | 0:03:01 | 0:03:01 | |
catching up with the action from the
second run of the men's luge. Then | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
the ski jumping. They call it "The
normal hill" but it is big enough! | 0:03:05 | 0:03:11 | |
Men's snowboarding was happening
earlier on this morning. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
Then, as a unified team, career
taking to the ice against | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
Switzerland. -- Korea. That is live
now on the red button, if you would | 0:03:21 | 0:03:28 | |
like. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Do the skeleton athletes, Laura Deas
and Lizzy Yarnold, is there anything | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
they can learn from watching the
luge, for the skeleton? Not really, | 0:03:43 | 0:03:49 | |
it is the same track but you go
round the corners slightly | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
differently. Bobsleigh drivers may
try and take a different line, the | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
bobsleigh is a lot bigger and
heavier, trying to get those angles. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
To be fair they are probably doing
something completely different in | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
the gym. You have to concentrate on
you and your racer, you do the same | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
things, having your mealtimes, and
doing your training sessions but you | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
need to fit in your sliding times
and training times. You will always | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
watch your own sports, training
times they will be looking at | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
others, taking videos and looking at
exits and entrances. Do they look at | 0:04:20 | 0:04:26 | |
other people's kit. If you see
something... It is so secretive. You | 0:04:26 | 0:04:34 | |
have a massive rule book. Exactly
like Formula 1, they are all pretty | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
much the same but it is a millimetre
of difference here and there that | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
can make them a different speed. The
runners are covered on a training | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
day, covered up and then they whip
off the runner covers, and off you | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
go. On race day you cannot get
close. It is very secret, nobody is | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
allowed to touch the slides when
they are in parc ferme May, it is | 0:04:54 | 0:04:59 | |
strict as to when you are allowed
near the sled or not. It's | 0:04:59 | 0:05:05 | |
strict as to when you are allowed
near the sled or not. It's the first | 0:05:05 | 0:05:10 | |
day of the men's kludge. Felix Loch
and Ludwick not far behind the | 0:05:10 | 0:05:18 | |
leader... David Gleirscher. Let's
pick up with Ron two with John Hunt | 0:05:18 | 0:05:24 | |
and John Jackson... | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
COMMENTATOR: Here is our leader,
David Gleirscher. We were talking | 0:05:29 | 0:05:34 | |
about his excellent training
routines. His first run beyond his | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
wildest dreams. He is leading into
round two. Can he now back it up | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
with another flying run? 47.652, his
time to lead after his first run. We | 0:05:44 | 0:05:56 | |
will hear the word "Consistency" all
through the week. Throughout all of | 0:05:56 | 0:06:01 | |
the disciplines. Gleirscher has to
prove that he can do it again. Yes, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:09 | |
I have mentioned about the
consistency and how exit two and | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
exit nine is key, a little early on
to the corner there, coming through | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
to seven. As the corner begins to
drop away, this is the key point | 0:06:18 | 0:06:25 | |
here. That is a great line. He is
going to start pulling away from the | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
guy in front. A big mistake. This
isn't about the guy who has gone | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
down but staying in front of Felix
Loch and the other guys, as he comes | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
up to the finish line. Around they
come to the line, it seemed | 0:06:38 | 0:06:48 | |
Gleirscher was smooth. Slower than
the first run. Two tenths of a | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
second slower. That opens up the
door for Felix Loch and others. Yes, | 0:06:54 | 0:07:02 | |
the track is now harder, it has had
a lot of action where they have been | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
scraping the top of the ice off, and
crashing into it. This little | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
mistake will not have helped him.
But it wasn't such a bad run. The | 0:07:10 | 0:07:16 | |
speed is still there in the sled.
Hopefully, as we see, the next | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
couple of fast guys come down.
Whether that is the norm, those two | 0:07:21 | 0:07:28 | |
tenths, whether it has cost him. And
here, representing the Olympic | 0:07:28 | 0:07:36 | |
athletes of Russia, Roman Repilov, a
really good first run. Just what we | 0:07:36 | 0:07:43 | |
were expecting from him, putting him
into fourth place. He needs to | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
consolidate that. Can he get closer
to Gleirscher, and apply pressure on | 0:07:47 | 0:07:53 | |
the great Felix Loch, coming after
him? Is a great opportunity for for | 0:07:53 | 0:07:58 | |
this young man to stamp his name in
the Olympic history books. He needs | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
a good and consistent run, we have
seen that he is quick in training | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
throughout the week. He can put on a
good run here. Going down the track, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:13 | |
into seven. Coming into the big drop
in Corner eight, exonerating again. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
This is key. Can he stay in the
medals? He will put pressure on the | 0:08:16 | 0:08:25 | |
leading Austrian. Making his way
down the track, towards the speed | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
trap. This is exciting. He has
closed the gap on Gleirscher but it | 0:08:28 | 0:08:36 | |
terrible mistake there! Around to
the finish, you lost some ground. I | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
felt sure that he would take the
lead. How did it unravel so late? He | 0:08:40 | 0:08:48 | |
came out of 15 a little too bar
round, he drove himself into the | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
wall. That's all it was. It cost
him. You can see the light turns | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
green, meaning he was in front. The
28, 29 hundredths that he is behind | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
is because of the tap on the wall.
It has cost him the lead but it | 0:09:03 | 0:09:09 | |
shows how dangerous this guy is. But
could happen on the last run? Could | 0:09:09 | 0:09:14 | |
it cost an Olympic gold medal?
Something like that you will not see | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
from Felix Loch, I am sure. You can
see the crowd are getting into the | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
rhythm of things but here is the
great man himself, Felix Loch. Yes | 0:09:23 | 0:09:28 | |
indeed. Bidding for his third
straight gold medal. He has | 0:09:28 | 0:09:39 | |
Gleirscher and Repilov in his
sights. Let's see, if ever you could | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
put your money on someone to
deliver... In the white heat of | 0:09:43 | 0:09:49 | |
competition. It is this German, he
is still only 28 years old. 20 when | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
he won his first gold. A great
start. You can see those lines are | 0:09:54 | 0:10:00 | |
smooth. Less than the blink of an
eye in it. He did it on the first | 0:10:00 | 0:10:07 | |
run. In the bottom right-hand corner
of the screen, the light has gone | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
green. He is in front. Pulling away,
that was inch perfect. Could not | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
have been any closer to the wall.
Just sliding around on the corners | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
on some of those exits but he still
pulls away. It is obviously working | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
for him, with that setup that he
has. That mistake had just happened | 0:10:25 | 0:10:31 | |
from the athlete prior to him. It is
a big margin. Stamping his authority | 0:10:31 | 0:10:37 | |
on this Olympics. What a big run, to
come from behind. Now, at the end of | 0:10:37 | 0:10:44 | |
run two, Felix Loch put himself
nearly two tenths of a second ahead | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
of the leader on run one, David
Gleirscher. That is all about | 0:10:49 | 0:10:55 | |
applying pressure. Two down for
Felix Loch, and the defending | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
Olympic champion is in a wonderful
position now. It is like on the | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
first run he said, I'll take it easy
on you guys, you got a chance, lull | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
them into that false sense of
security and then open up on the | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
second run, show his authority. You
can hear the American athlete, that | 0:11:12 | 0:11:23 | |
he is on his way before you see him.
There is a lot of support here for | 0:11:23 | 0:11:34 | |
Chris Mazdzer. He is fit after his
first run. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:47 | |
first run. He will have seen a
couple of the guys putting in fast | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
runs. It is whether he is
concentrating on them or on the | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
track. At the end of the day you
cannot control what these athletes | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
are doing. It is you against the
track. That is what he needs to | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
focus on. It is definitely something
with the American sledge. That was | 0:12:04 | 0:12:14 | |
inch perfect! Really good, this.
This was the run that he needs to | 0:12:14 | 0:12:19 | |
put down, to get in contention. He
will potentially put himself into a | 0:12:19 | 0:12:26 | |
medal position with this run. It is
really close. He is doing really | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
well to keep himself in. He inches | 0:12:30 | 0:12:37 | |
ahead of Fischnaller. Absolutely
superb. Edging into fourth place, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:49 | |
101,000th of the bronze medal.
Fabulous from the American. He will | 0:12:49 | 0:12:54 | |
be delighted. What would he be like
if he misses out on a bronze medal | 0:12:54 | 0:13:06 | |
by one thousandth of a second. To
miss out on a medal by that much, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
that would be heartbreaking. And in
context, he was 30th in Vancouver | 0:13:09 | 0:13:15 | |
and 30th in Sochi. To put himself
now in fourth position, nobody will | 0:13:15 | 0:13:21 | |
go past him for that. But it is
Rupert Staudinger next, in his first | 0:13:21 | 0:13:29 | |
run he had a disaster at the very
start. Clap your hands. He taps the | 0:13:29 | 0:13:35 | |
ice. As if to say, come on, Rupert.
You know that you are better than | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
that... I hope he has a really good
run here. Explosive start, then | 0:13:39 | 0:13:48 | |
relax. That is the idea. That's a
much better start, getting through | 0:13:48 | 0:13:54 | |
there clean. Let's see what Rupert
can do, with the lines that we know | 0:13:54 | 0:14:01 | |
he can drive. A small slide off the
corner there bet it's a much better | 0:14:01 | 0:14:05 | |
start than he had. It's a more
mature reflection. If he can get | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
through and show what he can do. I
spoke earlier about how perhaps they | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
chose the wrong run a site but
sometimes these smaller nations, | 0:14:15 | 0:14:21 | |
they do not have a lot of equipment.
They only have one set of runners | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
but it either works in these
conditions or not. He gets a little | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
behind the sledge, a little bit...
None of these guys have massive | 0:14:29 | 0:14:34 | |
amounts of funding like some of the
bigger winter sports. A lot of them | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
are self-funded, making it difficult
to compete against the top of the | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
world when you are self-funded. Four
tenths quicker than his first run. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:48 | |
Better from Rupert Staudinger. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:54 | |
He will hopefully just regain a bit
of confidence. Hopefully tomorrow | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
when he comes back tomorrow for his
third run he will have that start | 0:15:02 | 0:15:10 | |
sorted out and exit line. So we have
a good run tomorrow and see where | 0:15:10 | 0:15:16 | |
that leaves them for the final run.
Adam Rosen, 25th after the first run | 0:15:16 | 0:15:24 | |
which was a shade disappointing but
to recap it did not look untidy by | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
any means. It looks good but it
comes back to the equipment. If you | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
only have one set of runners and
that is all you can put on, they | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
might not suit these conditions.
Runners are really finicky and | 0:15:37 | 0:15:47 | |
almost like pliers on the Formula 1
tyre. Certain runners like certain | 0:15:47 | 0:15:54 | |
conditions. And because these guys
are limited in their funding and | 0:15:54 | 0:16:00 | |
they have limited support, they just
do not have the ability to buy the | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
equipment they need. And again this
is a great run from AJ. But the | 0:16:04 | 0:16:10 | |
speed is not there and they do not
have the equipment because they do | 0:16:10 | 0:16:17 | |
not have that support. And you can
see why in the Olympic Games he | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
finished 16th, because we have seen
worse than that from the guys in | 0:16:21 | 0:16:27 | |
front of him but it is just the
equipment. That is Graham Holmes. He | 0:16:27 | 0:16:35 | |
will be running the luge for the
military. It looks exactly the same | 0:16:35 | 0:16:40 | |
kind of run and exactly the same
time from Adam Rosen. Smooth and | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
controlled. Just not especially
quick. I think AJ should be happy | 0:16:43 | 0:16:49 | |
with today. Maybe not with his
overall time but the way he has | 0:16:49 | 0:16:53 | |
performed. He can only drive the
equipment he has got. And the drives | 0:16:53 | 0:16:58 | |
he has put in has been equal to some
of the top guys but he just does not | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
have the equipment to be able to be
up there with them. Good | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
have the equipment to be able to be
up there with them. Good job, mate. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:07 | |
Good job. John Jackson saying good
job at Felix Loch is the one out in | 0:17:07 | 0:17:14 | |
front, overtaking Gleirscher. What
did you make of that from Adam | 0:17:14 | 0:17:23 | |
Rosen? Very consistent, his times
between the first and second run | 0:17:23 | 0:17:28 | |
very similar so consistency is calee
and he learning with every single | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
one. -- consistency is key. It is
nine, ten and 11, those corners are | 0:17:31 | 0:17:44 | |
quite wonky so they need the best
exit. If you get something wrong in | 0:17:44 | 0:17:52 | |
luge, my word it goes wrong. Let's
take a look at this, the Slovakian | 0:17:52 | 0:17:57 | |
flying through the air and then
comes crashing down. It is all the | 0:17:57 | 0:18:02 | |
angles and a centimetre to the left
or right, you could just clip a | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
corner but all the speed and it
lifts you up and then you need to | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
try to get back on track as quickly
as you can in the next corners. Have | 0:18:10 | 0:18:15 | |
a look, this is horrifying. He did
really well to get it back under | 0:18:15 | 0:18:22 | |
control, Ninis. The air and then
trying to get his body position back | 0:18:22 | 0:18:28 | |
as quickly as possible. That is so
tricky and the race is lost or won | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
because of that. You could fracture
a bone. You could do. It would need | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
to be a bad angle. Normally you get
a lot of bruising. And you just get | 0:18:39 | 0:18:47 | |
on with it. When you're learning, we
to cut up a camping mat and stick it | 0:18:47 | 0:18:54 | |
on the elbows or ankle bones and
hips. | 0:18:54 | 0:19:00 | |
hips. Then it is aerodynamics, and
you do not want to hit a wall | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
without both. Well I think the
Indian, competing in his last | 0:19:04 | 0:19:14 | |
Olympics and look at this, going to
see his fans in the crowd and | 0:19:14 | 0:19:19 | |
they're just going wild. It is quite
a commitment, it is -6 out there. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:28 | |
Winter sports athletes spend six
months of the year abroad travelling | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
around the world. Six months
training in the summer so your whole | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
family and friends, they're part of
your journey supporting new year | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
after year. And look at that,
they're all part of it and enjoying | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
that excitement for him. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:49 | |
that excitement for him. Sometimes
you need to remember to enjoy it, | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
you're so focused on your
competition and you're just in this | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
bubble. And sometimes you can forget
to get in there and enjoy it. My key | 0:19:56 | 0:20:02 | |
thing, unless I was relaxed and
enjoying it I never raced well. It | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
took me a long time year after year
to realise hang on, why do I not | 0:20:06 | 0:20:12 | |
perform as well, I had broken track
records in training and never quite | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
did it on race day and took a long
time to make me realise that I have | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
to enjoy it and be in a happy place
as Elise | 0:20:20 | 0:20:28 | |
Christie is. I've chosen to do this
board, I need to enjoy it and then | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
the results happen. For most of us
it is how long the competition | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
lasts, all day long and now it is
10:35pm in Korea and still has not | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
finished, one more gold medal to be
decided today in the ski jumping, | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
normal hill.
This is how it works. Ski jumping | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
takes place on either the normal
hill or large hill. Competitors | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
typically jump further than the
length of a football pitch at speeds | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
of 90 miles an hour. Distance is the
biggest factor in success. But | 0:20:57 | 0:21:03 | |
points are also awarded for style in
our run, posture, flight and | 0:21:03 | 0:21:08 | |
landing. Points for distance are
determined by where a jumper land in | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
relation to the Cape point which is
the equivalent of a passport in | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
goal. If an athlete jumps beyond
that mark they earn extra points. If | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
they come up short they lose points.
Each competitor has two jumps which | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
are combined in the final standings. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:32 | |
Back at the ripe old age of 45 is
Kasai. Talking is through the walls | 0:21:39 | 0:21:47 | |
there. And they're running late
there and have not yet finished the | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
first round. It is the final round
that will decide the medals. But | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
let's see the best of what has
already happened with Williams. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:59 | |
let's see the best of what has
already happened with Williams. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
It is going to be difficult, but the
ten points back and difficult to | 0:22:03 | 0:22:12 | |
make that up. There is the double
Olympic champion and a reasonable | 0:22:12 | 0:22:22 | |
distance for Simon Mann. Just happy
to be back. He did not even know if | 0:22:22 | 0:22:32 | |
he would be retiring. He has had no
results to write home about four | 0:22:32 | 0:22:38 | |
years. 2011 the last time he had
anything worth writing home about. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:45 | |
And now he is back and loving it. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:53 | |
He has come through a lot recently,
Simon Ammann. He has been switching | 0:23:01 | 0:23:08 | |
the knee that he tries to land on.
And Prevc of Slovenia now. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:24 | |
And Prevc of Slovenia now. Hoping to
go one better from his Sochi | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
performance.
Just waiting for the flag to drop. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:43 | |
Keeping relentless focus on the
ground ahead of him. The other | 0:23:43 | 0:23:51 | |
athletes warming up in the
background. And it is the red light. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:58 | |
Prevc. Maybe a bit out of warm this
season. Just the one World Cup | 0:23:58 | 0:24:08 | |
bronze but considered to be a big
medal threat by Slovenia. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:17 | |
medal threat by Slovenia. Bronze on
the large hill, silver on the normal | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
hill in Sochi. Only ninth on the
large hill at the World | 0:24:19 | 0:24:26 | |
Championships last year. It has not
quite gone his way. And this is a | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
form sport as I say. Not that easy
even if you have a good long-term | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
track record to pull out of the
short-term slump in ski jumping. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:41 | |
Especially with an event like this.
And particularly when you're dealing | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
with these rather annoying little
wind intermissions. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:54 | |
Looking on the left, Robert
Johannson of Norway. A candidate for | 0:25:03 | 0:25:12 | |
best facial hair! You would think he
was listening to BBC coverage! | 0:25:12 | 0:25:29 | |
We await developments. A little
pause for the wind. The jury waiting | 0:25:35 | 0:25:41 | |
for the wind to be more favourable
before they give the all clear to | 0:25:41 | 0:25:48 | |
Simon Ammann. Probably running about
30 minutes behind schedule. You | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
might be able to hear the inner
venue announcement team encouraging | 0:25:51 | 0:25:58 | |
the fans to get up on their feet and
downs in order to stay warm. Not the | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
worst option. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:06 | |
-- and dance. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:11 | |
It was around -8 win the competition
started but I suspect it may have | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
dropped down to around -10, -11 by
now. Prevc is going to try again. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:26 | |
The gate has been lowered a little
bit so you have less speed tacking | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
down the in run. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:47 | |
The distance to be to get where you
want to be. The red light again. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:10 | |
want to be. The red light again. The
coaches having animated discussions | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
between themselves about | 0:27:12 | 0:27:18 | |
between themselves about this when
condition. More agonising waiting. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
Second-place facial hair contest, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:29 | |
Richard Freitag. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
Really impressive in qualifying and
that should be enough to get him | 0:27:59 | 0:28:04 | |
through. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:13 | |
through. Geiger of Germany.
Now these selenium, 34 years old. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:26 | |
Ninth place in Sochi in 2014. A
reasonable distance on that. 97 | 0:28:26 | 0:28:36 | |
metres. Damien of Slovenia and now
around 12 athletes still to go in | 0:28:36 | 0:28:44 | |
this first round. It has been an
on-off event. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:53 | |
Pulling off the kind of jump you
really want to pull off in an | 0:29:16 | 0:29:20 | |
Olympic final. A beautiful jump
coming through that green laser that | 0:29:20 | 0:29:26 | |
shows you the distance to beat, just
about duck Telemark landing and the | 0:29:26 | 0:29:33 | |
arm up in the air, the coaches
celebrating and that is the | 0:29:33 | 0:29:37 | |
traditional fist pump from the
Polish coach. And the judges love | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
it. One of 31.8. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:50 | |
it. One of 31.8. Hula going into the
provisional lead. And we're starting | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
to see athletes who had no real
right to be contenders in the final | 0:29:54 | 0:30:00 | |
pulling out some sensational jumps.
We've seen Geiger in this | 0:30:00 | 0:30:06 | |
first-round pulling out a phenomenal
jumper Germany and he is by no means | 0:30:06 | 0:30:10 | |
the leading ski jumper in Germany
looking at it on paper. Now down to | 0:30:10 | 0:30:15 | |
second place because Hula of Poland,
not your leading Polish contender as | 0:30:15 | 0:30:23 | |
that is Kamil Stoch, he has just
pulled out a phenomenal job. 111 | 0:30:23 | 0:30:28 | |
metres. That really is sensational.
We having this problem with the | 0:30:28 | 0:30:34 | |
wind. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:39 | |
The wind conditions are swirling, it
is difficult so the athletes are | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
forced to wait at the start gate and
wait for the jury, controlling the | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
orange light that you can see in the
corner of your screen, to give them | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
the yes or the know. If the light
turns red, then Andreas has to get | 0:30:51 | 0:30:56 | |
off the gate because the wind
conditions are no good. If the | 0:30:56 | 0:31:00 | |
orange light goes green, he is good
to go. The coach will drop the flag | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
and that will tell him that he can
jump. Normally if you have to wait | 0:31:04 | 0:31:11 | |
that long, you think that there will
be a red light sooner rather than | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
later. There is the red light, so
Andreas Stjernen will shuffle off. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:21 | |
That's good, she has the chance to
recapture will stop we are in the | 0:31:21 | 0:31:25 | |
middle of the first two rounds of
this final. This graphic shows the | 0:31:25 | 0:31:31 | |
Red Arrows, the wind that is
unacceptable to the jury. We had 50 | 0:31:31 | 0:31:37 | |
athletes, of which 30 will qualify
for the second round. The bottom 20, | 0:31:37 | 0:31:41 | |
we get rid of them after the first
jump. Sorry, we will see you later. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:48 | |
If we jump again, we take all the
points from the second round which | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
you are watching now, add all the
points from that, and it gives you | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
an Olympic medallist. Here goes
Andreas Stjernen... 29 years old. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
Qualified in 15th place. Just a
little short of the distance to beat | 0:32:01 | 0:32:05 | |
line. It brings out a reaction from
Andreas Stjernen. He can see the | 0:32:05 | 0:32:12 | |
line as well as you. A little short.
104 metres, I think it will be more | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
than enough to get him through to
the second round. As I just told | 0:32:16 | 0:32:21 | |
you, the score in the first round
counts towards the medals. If you | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
don't jump as well as you want to,
even if you get through to the | 0:32:25 | 0:32:29 | |
second round, you may have fatally
hobbled your chances of getting a | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
medal. We wait to see what the
judges give to Andreas Stjernen. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
They liked it. The maximum score
from the judges is 20. Discard the | 0:32:37 | 0:32:43 | |
highest score and the lowest. He is
17 points off Stefan Hula, who we | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
just saw from Poland. That's a
relatively big gap to catch up on. | 0:32:47 | 0:32:54 | |
26-year-old Markus Eisenbichler from
Germany. Third at last year's World | 0:32:54 | 0:32:59 | |
Championships last year... Not too
bad, a little short of the line. And | 0:32:59 | 0:33:04 | |
at this point, you are getting to
jumps who should really be pushing | 0:33:04 | 0:33:10 | |
further each time. This is the top
ten that we are seeing now. The | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
reason they are jumping is because
they are best in the world and | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
paper. Theoretically every single
person should be pushing the | 0:33:18 | 0:33:22 | |
envelope a little more. Not the case
here with Markus Eisenbichler. He | 0:33:22 | 0:33:26 | |
has already said he isn't afraid of
the cold weather. He's used to | 0:33:26 | 0:33:31 | |
jumping in -25, now it is -10 so no
trouble! That was Markus | 0:33:31 | 0:33:36 | |
Eisenbichler. Yes! He has changed
his mind! The judges are giving him | 0:33:36 | 0:33:45 | |
a teams, 18.5s. Into second place
provisionally with 121.6 points. It | 0:33:45 | 0:33:52 | |
gives you an idea of how well Stefan
Hula jumped. Still ten points adrift | 0:33:52 | 0:33:57 | |
and suddenly, Stefan Hula is an
Olympic gold medal contender. His | 0:33:57 | 0:34:06 | |
team-mate, Dawid Kubacki, very
impressive in qualifying. Not any | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
more, where did that go, he says.
Where was my qualifying form? Not | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
there. Two World Cup bronze medals
as an individual, but I don't think | 0:34:13 | 0:34:18 | |
we will see any more from him. A
surprisingly bad jump. 88 metres... | 0:34:18 | 0:34:25 | |
Timing off the end run was not
fantastic. His body shape looks OK. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:31 | |
You can see that he struggles a
little on the landing. Relatively | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
clean. It doesn't matter, your star
points count for nothing if you do | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
not have the distance. Despondent, I
think. That's how to sum up his | 0:34:38 | 0:34:44 | |
face. 92 points. In 27th place.
Dawid Kubacki, so impressive in | 0:34:44 | 0:34:54 | |
qualifying, doesn't even make the
second round. That's how quickly | 0:34:54 | 0:34:58 | |
things can turn around in this
sport, it's unpredictable and great | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
fun. Now, the 26-year-old from
Japan, Junshiro Kobayashi. We've | 0:35:01 | 0:35:08 | |
already seen his brother, Ryoyu
Kobayashi. Junshiro Kobayashi got | 0:35:08 | 0:35:16 | |
his first-ever World Cup win this
season. He is in fourth. But now | 0:35:16 | 0:35:22 | |
well short for the second time in a
row, the athlete coming down and it | 0:35:22 | 0:35:26 | |
feels like, why didn't I deliver? 93
metres, it isn't good enough. Don't | 0:35:26 | 0:35:34 | |
look at me, it wasn't my fault! His
younger brother Ryoyu is five years | 0:35:34 | 0:35:40 | |
younger and he got a distance of 108
metres. If you wonder why the older | 0:35:40 | 0:35:48 | |
brother looks a little disappointed
right now, it will be because he has | 0:35:48 | 0:35:52 | |
just managed to jump 50 metres
shorter of his brother five years | 0:35:52 | 0:35:57 | |
younger. -- 15 metres. That doesn't
feel good! Right now, Junshiro | 0:35:57 | 0:36:05 | |
Kobayashi isn't going through to the
second round, unless somebody else | 0:36:05 | 0:36:09 | |
does even worse. And I doubt it's
going to be the defending world | 0:36:09 | 0:36:14 | |
champion, Stefan Kraft... | 0:36:14 | 0:36:21 | |
champion, Stefan Kraft... Solid! Not
very spectacular but solid. Steven | 0:36:21 | 0:36:28 | |
Croft has been inconsistent, --
Stefan Kraft. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:37 | |
Stefan Kraft. If you add the results
together, in 20th place. Not great | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
if you are the defending world
champion. Qualifying fifth on | 0:36:41 | 0:36:45 | |
Thursday night, essentially his
Olympic debut. That jump may not | 0:36:45 | 0:36:51 | |
necessarily put him in contention.
103.5 metres isn't too bad, it | 0:36:51 | 0:36:56 | |
depends on what the judges think.
That is a good-looking landing. He | 0:36:56 | 0:37:01 | |
is nervously optimistic. But the
judges like it. 18.5s. Into second | 0:37:01 | 0:37:07 | |
place. It is good, very good. Medal
contention. Still nine points off | 0:37:07 | 0:37:15 | |
Cooler and that monster jump! I'm
wondering, will anyone catch him? -- | 0:37:15 | 0:37:23 | |
Hula. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:28 | |
Hula. Robert Johansson and his
moustache onto the starting gate, we | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
are in a run of three Norwegians.
Daniel Andre Tande and Johann Andre | 0:37:36 | 0:37:50 | |
Forfang are also medal contenders.
Let's see how Robert Johansson gets | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
on... He looked a little unsettled
in the air... Is coach looks | 0:37:52 | 0:38:03 | |
reasonably content. I'm not sure he
held his form well enough for the | 0:38:03 | 0:38:07 | |
judges. That may be a little low.
There were a lot of little | 0:38:07 | 0:38:14 | |
adjustments going on. Landing isn't
too bad, you want to keep your skis | 0:38:14 | 0:38:20 | |
just about shoulder width apart.
That is a Telemark landing, where | 0:38:20 | 0:38:25 | |
you bend your knee and you transfer
your weight from your front foot to | 0:38:25 | 0:38:31 | |
your back foot. It's an all right
score. It shows the level that the | 0:38:31 | 0:38:41 | |
athletes are demanding of
themselves, it is going up. Going | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
into the competition. It's a
handsome score, very respectable, | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
but he knows that he is now 12
points off the lead. It's a big | 0:38:48 | 0:38:53 | |
distance... And here comes Johann
Andre Forfang... He won the last | 0:38:53 | 0:38:58 | |
pre-Olympic World Cup, a reasonable
distance there. The issue for this | 0:38:58 | 0:39:04 | |
man is consistency. If he can put
together two good jumps in a row, | 0:39:04 | 0:39:10 | |
you will be a contender. It rarely
happens. In the last World Cup, it | 0:39:10 | 0:39:16 | |
did happen, he beat the Olympic
champion from 2014, Kamil Stoch. We | 0:39:16 | 0:39:20 | |
will see him in a feud jumps time.
He does have a win under his belt, | 0:39:20 | 0:39:28 | |
Forfang. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:33 | |
So, Forfang, 125.9 points, into
second place. Very solid! The first | 0:39:40 | 0:39:45 | |
time that we have seen someone get
close to Stefan Hula. Of Poland. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:58 | |
Daniel Andre Tande has been on
antibiotics or this week after an | 0:39:58 | 0:40:03 | |
infection. It doesn't really make a
difference... A little short. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:11 | |
difference... A little short. 103.5
metres, a couple of metres off what | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
Forfang just did. Equal with the
world champion who we saw moments | 0:40:15 | 0:40:20 | |
ago. Stefan Kraft. In the final
round I will tell you a story about | 0:40:20 | 0:40:28 | |
Daniel Andre Tande. He is afraid of
heights! I shall explain... He | 0:40:28 | 0:40:35 | |
turned 24 last month, and he is the
ski flying world champion, they go | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
over hundreds of metres, 200 plus
metres. But right now, he isn't | 0:40:39 | 0:40:44 | |
flying quite how he would like to.
Starting to feel like the Norwegian | 0:40:44 | 0:40:51 | |
coach... | 0:40:51 | 0:40:52 | |
Tenth place, I think Daniel Andre
Tande with his little wave was just | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
waving goodbye to a chance of an
Olympic medal tonight. You never | 0:40:59 | 0:41:02 | |
know. We have seen some of the top
jumpers are not getting what they | 0:41:02 | 0:41:06 | |
want here. You never know what is
going to happen in the final round. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:13 | |
Top in qualifying, Andreas Wellinger
surprised himself as much as anyone | 0:41:13 | 0:41:16 | |
else. He ruined his chances of a
Middle four years ago. He had a bad | 0:41:16 | 0:41:20 | |
first-round jump. -- a medal. 22
years old. A chance to put that | 0:41:20 | 0:41:28 | |
right if we get a green light in the
wind... His coach looks down, and he | 0:41:28 | 0:41:33 | |
gives it the green flag... A solid
take-off... A good distance. Just | 0:41:33 | 0:41:44 | |
not quite the longest jump that we
have seen. But 104.5, depending on | 0:41:44 | 0:41:52 | |
the scores from the judges. It is
going to leave Andreas Wellinger | 0:41:52 | 0:41:57 | |
just about in contention. Here is
that form. Hold it... Do not let it | 0:41:57 | 0:42:07 | |
waver. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:17 | |
They have already seen Andreas
Wellinger and Markus Eisenbichler | 0:42:25 | 0:42:32 | |
looking good for Germany tonight.
And Karl Geiger. And we have another | 0:42:32 | 0:42:40 | |
German now... Richard Freitag. This
man is their favourite. He has a | 0:42:40 | 0:42:47 | |
chance of winning. A good
distance... | 0:42:47 | 0:42:55 | |
distance... 106 metres, that will be
a contender. Still five metres off | 0:42:55 | 0:43:05 | |
Hula's monster jump earlier on.
There's a good chance of Richard | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
Freitag going second year. His final
jump last week was only the 28th | 0:43:08 | 0:43:13 | |
best, when he has been among the top
three or top for all season. He was | 0:43:13 | 0:43:18 | |
unsettled by the wind. That cannot
be helpful tonight. It is a real | 0:43:18 | 0:43:21 | |
struggle. That was good! That looks
like it could put him in contention. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:31 | |
See how the judges reacted? They
loved it! As soon as you see 19s on | 0:43:31 | 0:43:36 | |
the board, you know someone will be
a very happy man. Now, the defending | 0:43:36 | 0:43:47 | |
Olympic champion won the normal cell
and the long hill in 2014, | 0:43:47 | 0:43:51 | |
qualifying in second place here. --
the normal health. How does he do | 0:43:51 | 0:43:55 | |
tonight? | 0:43:55 | 0:44:00 | |
It's a big jump, that's what he has
got extra! | 0:44:00 | 0:44:07 | |
It's a big jump, that's what he has
got That is up there. The Polish | 0:44:07 | 0:44:08 | |
fans are loving it. He is bidding to
be the first man to successfully | 0:44:08 | 0:44:14 | |
defend a normal | 0:44:14 | 0:44:19 | |
defend a normal hill title. He could
be the first to do the double in | 0:44:22 | 0:44:25 | |
both games. In 2002 we had Simon
Ammann who did it. Will Kamil Stoch | 0:44:25 | 0:44:35 | |
be able to do the double? The last
jumper of the night. Let's see where | 0:44:35 | 0:44:39 | |
he will fit in here... A little off
course down there. But there is the | 0:44:39 | 0:44:44 | |
fist bump. And 125.9, into second
place. Will Kamil Stoch be able to | 0:44:44 | 0:44:55 | |
do it? Up there with Forfang of
Norway but they both trail Polish | 0:44:55 | 0:45:05 | |
Hula by more than five points. It
will be interesting because Hula | 0:45:05 | 0:45:08 | |
came from nowhere to lead this
Olympic ski jump final after one | 0:45:08 | 0:45:15 | |
round of two. We knew that he was
having a strong season. We knew that | 0:45:15 | 0:45:19 | |
he was up to 30th in the world and
right now, look at this. Hula, from | 0:45:19 | 0:45:25 | |
nowhere, is first! | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
We having this problem with the
wind. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:31 | |
Poland in a very strong position to
win the gold medal. The wind | 0:45:31 | 0:45:36 | |
obviously causing delays but also
affecting the jumpers in different | 0:45:36 | 0:45:40 | |
ways. So some of them jumping much
shorter than the qualifying | 0:45:40 | 0:45:45 | |
distances. Would that be why? I
think that has an effect. When you | 0:45:45 | 0:45:51 | |
get into this kind of environment
and you are disrupted, jumpers have | 0:45:51 | 0:45:56 | |
gone out and come back three or four
times and not been able to junk. You | 0:45:56 | 0:46:00 | |
need such mental capacity to keep on
top of it. We had a Bulgarian | 0:46:00 | 0:46:07 | |
contender who really mass debate and
some others did not. And it will be | 0:46:07 | 0:46:10 | |
telling when it gets even colder
this evening who is able to master | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
that on this final jump when it is
all one thing. It is 11 o'clock | 0:46:14 | 0:46:19 | |
there now and how cold is it?
According to the temperature gauge I | 0:46:19 | 0:46:23 | |
have here it is minus ten. I think
that is on the side! Looking at more | 0:46:23 | 0:46:31 | |
like minus 13. Absolutely. Just
seeing some of the highlights. How | 0:46:31 | 0:46:37 | |
long before they start the final
round? Theoretically in around half | 0:46:37 | 0:46:42 | |
an hour, 40 minutes time. It is
scheduled for half an hour ago so | 0:46:42 | 0:46:48 | |
you tell me. I think they will try
to turn it around as quickly as they | 0:46:48 | 0:46:54 | |
can and hopefully we will all be
home for midnight! I doubt it very | 0:46:54 | 0:46:58 | |
much! So do I! How many of those
that we have just seen God they go | 0:46:58 | 0:47:08 | |
in reverse order? Yes so you have 30
going in the final and it will take | 0:47:08 | 0:47:12 | |
at least 45 minutes. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:18 | |
at least 45 minutes. We will
definitely see Kasai compete in his | 0:47:18 | 0:47:27 | |
eight Olympic Games. All very
exciting out there. We will be back | 0:47:27 | 0:47:32 | |
their lives and that will be the
final medals of the day to be | 0:47:32 | 0:47:40 | |
decided. In the ski jumping. But
first we have this guide to the | 0:47:40 | 0:47:45 | |
region that hosts these Winter
Olympics. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:54 | |
Hello and welcome to Pyeongchang. As
the locals would say... | 0:47:55 | 0:48:04 | |
Home to the 2018 Winter Olympic
Games. And first to be held here in | 0:48:04 | 0:48:11 | |
South Korea. We're roughly 200
kilometres east of the capital city | 0:48:11 | 0:48:16 | |
of Seoul and spread across four
locations where will we will have | 0:48:16 | 0:48:20 | |
plenty of drama and thrills and
spills. And excitement. All that | 0:48:20 | 0:48:25 | |
over the next two weeks. In
Pyeongchang so far the majority of | 0:48:25 | 0:48:33 | |
recorded temperatures have been -10
degrees or lower. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:40 | |
So we looked to be on course for the
coldest Winter Olympics to date. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:48 | |
South Korea is one of the world's
leading providers of technology and | 0:48:48 | 0:48:52 | |
that is being embraced here at the
Winter Olympics. I am ready. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:58 | |
Actually I'm not, it is a little bit
scary. Nice to meet you. Out of the | 0:48:58 | 0:49:05 | |
gate and what a start.
Tell me a joke! | 0:49:05 | 0:49:16 | |
Tell me a joke! There is also the
chance to be a pilot in the | 0:49:16 | 0:49:19 | |
dangerous world of bobsleigh. But
don't worry because I have got my | 0:49:19 | 0:49:24 | |
lucky egg. That was insane! The food
in South Korea is superb. Chicken | 0:49:24 | 0:49:34 | |
Rahman and of course kimchee which
is fermented cabbage. Everything you | 0:49:34 | 0:49:45 | |
need before you head out for a good
time. Or you could find yourself | 0:49:45 | 0:49:49 | |
here singing along to some of your
favourite kapok. | 0:49:49 | 0:50:04 | |
# Gangnam Style. | 0:50:06 | 0:50:11 | |
Pyeongchang also has some incredible
temples like this Buddhist temple | 0:50:13 | 0:50:18 | |
here. A national treasure which is a
beautiful example of Korean | 0:50:18 | 0:50:24 | |
architecture which celebrates the
rich history and culture and | 0:50:24 | 0:50:26 | |
religion of the country.
Over the course of the next couple | 0:50:26 | 0:50:35 | |
of weeks the most amount of medals
ever will be handed out inside the | 0:50:35 | 0:50:39 | |
Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. It
promises to be absolutely | 0:50:39 | 0:50:44 | |
spectacular. Strap yourself in, this
is Pyeongchang 2018. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:50 | |
Brilliant stuff from Tim. Just sorry
I did not manage to have a go at the | 0:50:50 | 0:50:56 | |
karaoke. Now the first medals were
awarded in Skiathlon in the early | 0:50:56 | 0:51:01 | |
hours of the morning and the field
included Marat pure organ of Norway. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:06 | |
Athlete. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:12 | |
-- Marit Bjoergen. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
-- Marit Bjoergen. | 0:51:29 | 0:51:33 | |
Plenty of women still in touch. Want
to deny Marit Bjoergen this golden | 0:51:33 | 0:51:37 | |
opportunity. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:44 | |
opportunity. Still at least seven
people who have the pedigree to take | 0:51:44 | 0:51:48 | |
these last few kilometres and make
it their own. But they're all up | 0:51:48 | 0:51:53 | |
against someone in Marit Bjoergen
who has done it time and time again. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:58 | |
The last two Olympics Skiathlon is
she has fended off everyone. And it | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
must play on their minds now of the
rest of the pack. What would Marit | 0:52:02 | 0:52:08 | |
Bjoergen do, what should I be doing
now. Absolutely and I think she will | 0:52:08 | 0:52:12 | |
be hard to beat if it comes down to
the final sprint. To me she looks | 0:52:12 | 0:52:17 | |
very comfortable. I think she still
has something in the tank. She will | 0:52:17 | 0:52:21 | |
be feeling confident going into that
last lap on the course. Heidi Weng | 0:52:21 | 0:52:29 | |
just hanging on to the leading
group. | 0:52:29 | 0:52:39 | |
group. Diggins in there as well.
Heidi Weng just on the back of that | 0:52:40 | 0:52:45 | |
group. Then a five second gap to the
leader of the second group. Just | 0:52:45 | 0:52:56 | |
about to get very interesting here.
Marit Bjoergen has not had this race | 0:52:56 | 0:53:01 | |
all to herself and there are women
here who genuinely can put under | 0:53:01 | 0:53:07 | |
pressure in the closing stages. But
how brave are they willing to be and | 0:53:07 | 0:53:11 | |
how much will they have to push on
that really steep hill coming into | 0:53:11 | 0:53:15 | |
the stadium at the end of this loop.
Ever Anderson, what a story that | 0:53:15 | 0:53:21 | |
would be for Sweden. Impossible to
overstate the rivalry between Sweden | 0:53:21 | 0:53:26 | |
and Norway in this sport. Everyone
clear the decks, sit down and watch | 0:53:26 | 0:53:33 | |
this. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:38 | |
this. Christine Calor coming ahead,
and Sweden would love to take this | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
opening run. | 0:53:43 | 0:53:51 | |
opening run. -- Charlotte Kalla.
Marit Bjoergen in third place, right | 0:53:51 | 0:54:03 | |
alongside Parmakoski. Parmakoski
just behind. And this is a really | 0:54:03 | 0:54:11 | |
bold move from Charlotte Kalla. We
know she has the class to become a | 0:54:11 | 0:54:18 | |
Winter Olympic champion because she
already is one in ten K. Can she do | 0:54:18 | 0:54:22 | |
it here today? This is a big move
from Charlotte Kalla. For me Marit | 0:54:22 | 0:54:28 | |
Bjoergen played it badly. And that
cost her some valuable seconds. This | 0:54:28 | 0:54:36 | |
is a big move from Charlotte Kalla.
That is a gap and look at this hill | 0:54:36 | 0:54:42 | |
as well. Charlotte Kalla the Swedish
fans have been saying that this is | 0:54:42 | 0:54:49 | |
third time. If she is going to win
this Olympic gold medal it has to be | 0:54:49 | 0:54:53 | |
today but all of the conditions are
in her favour. The snow underfoot in | 0:54:53 | 0:54:58 | |
terms of what conditions are like,
it all plays into what she likes. No | 0:54:58 | 0:55:03 | |
real dominant force this season.
Charlotte Kalla, now a sizeable gap. | 0:55:03 | 0:55:08 | |
And not long left to go at all.
Marit Bjoergen will have to do | 0:55:08 | 0:55:13 | |
something special. Four seconds
could mean an awful lot here and I | 0:55:13 | 0:55:18 | |
think that is really big what she
has just done. Charlotte Kalla has | 0:55:18 | 0:55:24 | |
taken it to the Iron Lady. Remember
Marit Bjoergen can still make | 0:55:24 | 0:55:28 | |
history. That is the Austrian, a
really classy performer. But | 0:55:28 | 0:55:38 | |
Charlotte Kalla has raced smart and
she has got this raised at the | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
moment. The Swedish bands in the
stadium getting ready to be very | 0:55:41 | 0:55:48 | |
excited because it is not just
Charlotte Kalla, but ever Anderson | 0:55:48 | 0:55:55 | |
also still in the mix. So the
momentum at the moment is with the | 0:55:55 | 0:56:00 | |
suite. Only one Norwegian in the top
three. And there is Marit Bjoergen. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:10 | |
Anderson right behind her. Look at
this hill as they climb, if | 0:56:10 | 0:56:18 | |
Charlotte Kalla does this, people
already love her personality in | 0:56:18 | 0:56:23 | |
Sweden, she's a emotional and she
says what she thinks, someone people | 0:56:23 | 0:56:27 | |
really want to in terms of the way
that she reacts. And not only | 0:56:27 | 0:56:32 | |
potentially going to win the gold
medal but will also become the first | 0:56:32 | 0:56:34 | |
Swedish woman to become a three
times Olympic gold medallist in | 0:56:34 | 0:56:40 | |
cross-country skiing. She would put
herself even further out there as a | 0:56:40 | 0:56:44 | |
national hero if she can take the
gold medal. Really working hard | 0:56:44 | 0:56:48 | |
going up this hill. Last time some
tactics still played to take it easy | 0:56:48 | 0:56:55 | |
but now this is 100% all out and put
everything on the line. And Marit | 0:56:55 | 0:57:00 | |
Bjoergen not giving up yet. She will
not give up until the end. If she | 0:57:00 | 0:57:08 | |
makes up this gap and wins the gold
medal it surely would confirm Marit | 0:57:08 | 0:57:13 | |
Bjoergen is the greatest female
cross-country skier of all time. It | 0:57:13 | 0:57:18 | |
would be pretty special. Charlotte
Kalla is no slouch so that would be | 0:57:18 | 0:57:21 | |
incredible. But she is incredibly
competitive, Marit Bjoergen and I | 0:57:21 | 0:57:26 | |
know that she just will not give up.
She still believes that she can do | 0:57:26 | 0:57:29 | |
it. This is getting tight for second
and third. We know the class of | 0:57:29 | 0:57:36 | |
Marit Bjoergen but Anderson of
Sweden is | 0:57:36 | 0:57:48 | |
Sweden is there and with a gap as it
is unless there is an absolutely | 0:57:48 | 0:57:51 | |
huge move up that brutal hill coming
into the stadium from Marit | 0:57:51 | 0:57:58 | |
Bjoergen, this looks very much as
though it could be a winning lead. | 0:57:58 | 0:58:02 | |
37 years of age, Marit Bjoergen,
Father Time marches on. She has the | 0:58:02 | 0:58:08 | |
class to close the gap but she needs
to do something right now. Charlotte | 0:58:08 | 0:58:14 | |
Kalla will be hurting, she was brave
and bold, she will be starting to | 0:58:14 | 0:58:18 | |
feel this and Marit Bjoergen may
come under pressure from the Finnish | 0:58:18 | 0:58:23 | |
athlete who pushed so close to the
world title last year. There is | 0:58:23 | 0:58:28 | |
Marit Bjoergen, number eight.
Anderson now in fourth place. Marit | 0:58:28 | 0:58:39 | |
Bjoergen needs to find something.
She could still produce history. Any | 0:58:39 | 0:58:44 | |
medal would make the greatest on her
own of all time. And you mentioned | 0:58:44 | 0:58:48 | |
the history were Charlotte Kalla, if
she wins a medal here she will be up | 0:58:48 | 0:58:55 | |
there with the Alpine skier as the
greatest Swedish individual | 0:58:55 | 0:59:00 | |
medallist with six Winter Olympic
medals. That is the gap. Surely this | 0:59:00 | 0:59:05 | |
is too much even for Marit Bjoergen.
Even for Marit Bjoergen, I think she | 0:59:05 | 0:59:11 | |
might have let it go too much, too
little and too late from there. | 0:59:11 | 0:59:17 | |
Phenomenal skiing from the ladies
behind but I think Charlotte Kalla | 0:59:17 | 0:59:20 | |
has skied the perfect race today.
And Marit Bjoergen absolutely not | 0:59:20 | 0:59:24 | |
having it her own way Parmakoski
still hopped on heels. And maybe she | 0:59:24 | 0:59:32 | |
does not have that finishing spirit
in her. Parmakoski definitely | 0:59:32 | 0:59:37 | |
working hard to stay on tail. And
Parmakoski, it shows that she is | 0:59:37 | 0:59:42 | |
finding it easy enough to stay in
contention with Marit Bjoergen. If | 0:59:42 | 0:59:47 | |
had something, Parmakoski would not
be able to stay as close as she is. | 0:59:47 | 0:59:55 | |
Charlotte Kalla has raced superbly.
Marit Bjoergen now has a little gap | 0:59:55 | 0:59:59 | |
over Parmakoski. This will be a
sweet moment for Charlotte Kalla. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:11 | |
The grimmest turns to a smile, she
will secure the first gold of the | 1:00:11 | 1:00:16 | |
2018 Winter Olympics here in
Pyeongchang. A big effort from | 1:00:16 | 1:00:23 | |
Parmakoski trying to close down
Marit Bjorgen. There will be history | 1:00:23 | 1:00:27 | |
for the Norwegian today but not in
the position to which she has grown | 1:00:27 | 1:00:33 | |
accustomed. Charlotte Kalla,
Sweden's Golden girl, has delivered | 1:00:33 | 1:00:35 | |
perhaps the performance of her life.
So bold, so brave and it is she who | 1:00:35 | 1:00:42 | |
becomes the skiathlon Winter Olympic
champion. History is secured for | 1:00:42 | 1:00:47 | |
Marit Bjorgen. She is right to
celebrate her silver medal. It makes | 1:00:47 | 1:00:52 | |
her the most decorated female Winter
Olympian in history and | 1:00:52 | 1:01:03 | |
Olympian in history and she has
other chances for gold. Parmakoski | 1:01:03 | 1:01:05 | |
did her very best to put the
Norwegian and the Swede and | 1:01:05 | 1:01:07 | |
depression. She completes the podium
after silver this year. -- last | 1:01:07 | 1:01:11 | |
year, bronze now. Sweden's Charlotte
Kalla, what a race and what a | 1:01:11 | 1:01:18 | |
performance! STUDIO: Rob Walker
describing the action there along | 1:01:18 | 1:01:22 | |
performance! STUDIO: Rob Walker
describing the action there along | 1:01:22 | 1:01:23 | |
with Rob Williams and Posy Musgrave.
Holly Ward be commentating on the | 1:01:23 | 1:01:28 | |
final round in the ski jumping. Day
one will go into Day two, | 1:01:28 | 1:01:36 | |
remarkably. Amazing! He won't get a
day off... Neither should he! Get | 1:01:36 | 1:01:41 | |
him out there! It was tougher in the
old days. And to prove is mildly | 1:01:41 | 1:01:46 | |
chilly here in Salford, but we want
to assure everyone that we are not | 1:01:46 | 1:01:51 | |
wimping out of getting cold just
because we are here, we've done our | 1:01:51 | 1:01:57 | |
time, when it comes to your nostrils
freezing up, we'd been there! I | 1:01:57 | 1:02:03 | |
remember going back 24 years. I
brought the souvenirs to prove it! | 1:02:03 | 1:02:09 | |
At the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics,
the coldest game is on record, ever. | 1:02:09 | 1:02:13 | |
It was about -6 in the opening
ceremony in Pyeongchang and in | 1:02:13 | 1:02:18 | |
Lillehammer it was -12 and going
down... That was all they gave us! | 1:02:18 | 1:02:24 | |
New heated seats? No blankets... And
it was before microfibre stuff! | 1:02:24 | 1:02:32 | |
Steady! Polystyrene, not given a
blanket but a nice plastic to blend | 1:02:32 | 1:02:39 | |
into the background. This one came
from to ring. The one from Lily | 1:02:39 | 1:02:43 | |
hammer they had to chip off me with
a chisel by the end of it! -- Turin. | 1:02:43 | 1:02:51 | |
Part of me was forever numbed. Those
were the best games for me that | 1:02:51 | 1:02:55 | |
after a brilliant start, I think we
will have an equally fantastic | 1:02:55 | 1:03:02 | |
Winter Olympics, and with the cold.
It'd be good to see the action | 1:03:02 | 1:03:07 | |
continue. Yes, it's time to go back
to the ski jumping. The first of the | 1:03:07 | 1:03:12 | |
jumping medals is about to be
decided. Kamil Stoch going for the | 1:03:12 | 1:03:17 | |
double 22 rival Simon Mann who did
it a couple of times but it is a | 1:03:17 | 1:03:22 | |
Polish competitor -- Simon Ammann.
Let's go back to Ollie Williams for | 1:03:22 | 1:03:33 | |
the second of the jumps... | 1:03:33 | 1:03:37 | |
Let's go back to Ollie Williams for
the second of the jumps... | 1:03:37 | 1:03:38 | |
COMMENTATOR: Hazel, thank you.
I can find some people here who | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
would take advantage of heated
seats, if you can provide! Welcome | 1:03:41 | 1:03:45 | |
back. It is the final round, four
jumpers in, 30 made it through from | 1:03:45 | 1:03:49 | |
the first round. Every point they
score now, it is added to their | 1:03:49 | 1:03:56 | |
points from the first round. That is
how we get a total. The gentleman | 1:03:56 | 1:03:59 | |
you are watching right now, he is
for Slovenia and it is Jernej | 1:03:59 | 1:04:08 | |
Damjan, 101 points in the first
round. Let me give you some context | 1:04:08 | 1:04:16 | |
for Hula, the leader. It will take
something relatively spectacular to | 1:04:16 | 1:04:23 | |
see Jernej Damjan be a contender at
the end here. Hula got 108. He will | 1:04:23 | 1:04:28 | |
turn that frown upside down. He is
not sure. Now in second place. He | 1:04:28 | 1:04:36 | |
won't be a contender coming into
this but he got through to the | 1:04:36 | 1:04:39 | |
final. We are going in reverse
order... The competitors with the | 1:04:39 | 1:04:45 | |
lowest qualifying scores from the
first round are going first... | 1:04:45 | 1:04:49 | |
Meaning we build up to the grand
finale of this fascinating Polish | 1:04:49 | 1:04:54 | |
duel. Between the defending Olympic
champion Kamil Stoch and out of | 1:04:54 | 1:05:03 | |
nowhere, Stefan Hula. Now, from the
Czech Republic, it is Roman | 1:05:03 | 1:05:10 | |
Koudelka. The coach not massively
thrilled, he has come straight off | 1:05:10 | 1:05:14 | |
the rostrum. 103 metres in the first
round, to get through to the second | 1:05:14 | 1:05:19 | |
round, that would have been good
enough but now we are attempting to | 1:05:19 | 1:05:22 | |
win medals. Look at that, tongue
out, working at the jump. 103 metres | 1:05:22 | 1:05:29 | |
is probably not good. Two factors to
the scoring of the ski jump. First | 1:05:29 | 1:05:36 | |
is the distance... You can see the
green line, the laser light crossing | 1:05:36 | 1:05:40 | |
the landing area. You can see that,
it isn't CGI, it is inside of the | 1:05:40 | 1:05:46 | |
arena. If you beat the green light,
you are essentially beating the | 1:05:46 | 1:05:50 | |
first-place athlete. Otherwise, you
are not. Then there is the point | 1:05:50 | 1:05:57 | |
where you can see there is a red
marking. If you advance beyond it, | 1:05:57 | 1:06:01 | |
you get more points for your
distance and if you do not make it, | 1:06:01 | 1:06:05 | |
you don't get as many. Simple as
that. The second half of scoring is | 1:06:05 | 1:06:11 | |
your style. You need to look good in
the area with a bold jump. Hold your | 1:06:11 | 1:06:15 | |
form and land property. Telemark
landing, I will point that out to | 1:06:15 | 1:06:21 | |
you now. This is Jonathan Learoyd,
competing for France but he has | 1:06:21 | 1:06:28 | |
British parents. The closest thing
to a British competitor here. A | 1:06:28 | 1:06:31 | |
solid long jump, the coaches love
it! As does Jonathan Learoyd, only | 1:06:31 | 1:06:38 | |
17 years old. Can you believe it? In
the final of the Olympic ski jump at | 1:06:38 | 1:06:42 | |
the age of 17. The jump distance was
very strong. By his standards, that | 1:06:42 | 1:06:50 | |
is good. Only a young teenager who
doesn't come from a country with | 1:06:50 | 1:06:58 | |
much ski jump heritage. He allows
himself a little smile, at the | 1:06:58 | 1:07:05 | |
bottom. | 1:07:05 | 1:07:11 | |
bottom. The judges liked it. 103.8
points, putting him in third place | 1:07:11 | 1:07:15 | |
for now. We still have 24 people
left to go. Now, with a bronze and | 1:07:15 | 1:07:27 | |
silver in Sochi, we have Peter
Prevc... What a jump! He brings out | 1:07:27 | 1:07:36 | |
the big guns when he needs to. 113
metres. That's as far as anybody has | 1:07:36 | 1:07:43 | |
jumped this week on this hill. A
fantastic distance! Watch the form | 1:07:43 | 1:07:48 | |
and see how still he remains all the
way down... Leaning forwards and | 1:07:48 | 1:07:56 | |
blazing through the green line. That
is exceptionally strong, that is | 1:07:56 | 1:08:07 | |
what Sweden know he is capable of.
Look at those scores from the | 1:08:07 | 1:08:14 | |
judges. Absolutely phenomenal! He is
one of the only ski jumpers to ever | 1:08:14 | 1:08:17 | |
get perfect 20s. Like perfect
temperament in gymnastics, it is | 1:08:17 | 1:08:23 | |
very rare. He is one of five or six.
-- a perfect ten in gymnastics. We | 1:08:23 | 1:08:35 | |
are going to wait for the Bulgarian,
Vladimir Zografski, he waited for | 1:08:35 | 1:08:42 | |
ten minutes in the first round due
to a wind stoppage. If you get | 1:08:42 | 1:08:47 | |
crosswinds on the course, if they
are not fair, the jury shuts down | 1:08:47 | 1:08:52 | |
the hill for a while. Vladimir
Zografski is waiting at the side of | 1:08:52 | 1:08:57 | |
the gate. You can see that bar
across the front there. If it turns | 1:08:57 | 1:09:03 | |
to green, Zografski will shuffle
across and go down but he cannot do | 1:09:03 | 1:09:06 | |
that until the jury say yes, they've
done that now. The light behind goes | 1:09:06 | 1:09:11 | |
red to orange. When it goes Green,
Zografski will be given the OK. It | 1:09:11 | 1:09:16 | |
has to be said, after sitting there
for ten minutes in the first round, | 1:09:16 | 1:09:21 | |
having to compose himself again and
again, he delivers a brilliant jump. | 1:09:21 | 1:09:26 | |
What will get this time? 106.8
points on the first time around. A | 1:09:26 | 1:09:34 | |
great distance again. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:44 | |
Almost up there with Peter Prevc.
His dad was a ski jumper in the 1982 | 1:09:46 | 1:09:53 | |
Olympics. That is a really strong
score. That angle, leaning so far | 1:09:53 | 1:09:58 | |
forward. Keep your skis in the shape
of a V, they are your wings. They | 1:09:58 | 1:10:04 | |
give you the live. The Telemark
landing. And you're back leg. If you | 1:10:04 | 1:10:08 | |
hold it, the judges are looking for
it. | 1:10:08 | 1:10:17 | |
it. Solid judging. A great Olympics
for Zografski so far. | 1:10:17 | 1:10:27 | |
for Zografski so far. So, eight
competitors so far. | 1:10:27 | 1:10:33 | |
competitors so far. Peter Prevc
leading. You never know, as much as | 1:10:33 | 1:10:37 | |
this is about these competitors in
their second rounds, trying to | 1:10:37 | 1:10:40 | |
deliver huge scores, if it goes
wrong, suddenly you can be at the | 1:10:40 | 1:10:47 | |
back. With 234 points, Peter Prevc
comedy never know, it might be | 1:10:47 | 1:10:51 | |
enough for something? | 1:10:51 | 1:10:56 | |
enough for something? The
28-year-old from Austria, twice a | 1:10:57 | 1:11:00 | |
world silver medallist in this
event... If you remember Marcus | 1:11:00 | 1:11:05 | |
Platt, who | 1:11:05 | 1:11:12 | |
Platt, who competed -- who competed
in the louche, he is his uncle. It's | 1:11:12 | 1:11:18 | |
an impressive Olympic heritage for
Gregor Schlierenzauer. A six time | 1:11:18 | 1:11:22 | |
Olympic uncle. This is his third
family... Into the air. Just about | 1:11:22 | 1:11:33 | |
at the point, the construction
point, the construction point. If | 1:11:33 | 1:11:42 | |
you go at above, you get more
points, if you don't, you get fewer. | 1:11:42 | 1:11:47 | |
He is 1.5 metres over the Cape point
for the hill, which is 98 metres. He | 1:11:47 | 1:11:55 | |
gets a small bonus on his score.
Then you at the judges points, and a | 1:11:55 | 1:12:00 | |
wind compensation score, and a gate
compensation score for that to | 1:12:00 | 1:12:04 | |
ensure everyone is happy. Then we
come up with the score you see | 1:12:04 | 1:12:09 | |
appearing before your eyes. So,
scoring 103.6. | 1:12:09 | 1:12:18 | |
scoring 103.6. -12.9 means that
there was a tailwind behind. If you | 1:12:18 | 1:12:20 | |
get a boost from the wind, you get
points taken off due to level it | 1:12:20 | 1:12:23 | |
out. Where you see that for the
wind, that means you essentially got | 1:12:23 | 1:12:27 | |
12.9 points worth of wind benefit.
And we are taking them back, | 1:12:27 | 1:12:33 | |
otherwise it is unfair. Similarly,
jumping into a headwind, we will | 1:12:33 | 1:12:37 | |
give you extra points because you
had to work harder. It's all about | 1:12:37 | 1:12:42 | |
ski jump levelling the playing field
and acknowledging the wind is never | 1:12:42 | 1:12:48 | |
the same for two competitors. Tailed
off a little bit the last couple of | 1:12:48 | 1:12:58 | |
years, he has come really close to
the podium before. And what about | 1:12:58 | 1:13:04 | |
tonight? | 1:13:04 | 1:13:12 | |
He isn't going to do it. That's the
answer. Now we have the green light, | 1:13:12 | 1:13:15 | |
there are some big jumps in this
round. If you are not hitting the | 1:13:15 | 1:13:20 | |
green line, we can count you out.
103 metres for Michael Hayboeck, | 1:13:20 | 1:13:28 | |
it's unlikely to do much. To be
competitive here and go above Peter | 1:13:28 | 1:13:35 | |
Prevc, he would need 125 points or
so, which is probably unlikely! The | 1:13:35 | 1:13:45 | |
Telemark landing, hold it until you
get past what is essentially a fall | 1:13:45 | 1:13:49 | |
line. The judges liked it. Only gets
110.5 points. It doesn't matter how | 1:13:49 | 1:13:57 | |
much the judges like your jump, if
it did not go far, you've got to do | 1:13:57 | 1:14:01 | |
both. These are the standings so
far... Slovenians will be reassured | 1:14:01 | 1:14:08 | |
about that. They were worried that
Peter Prevc wasn't really going to | 1:14:08 | 1:14:12 | |
perform. Michael Hayboeck in third,
who we just saw. | 1:14:12 | 1:14:22 | |
who we just saw. He has special
bindings, see if you can see those | 1:14:24 | 1:14:26 | |
little hooks holding the skis and
boots together, as you go down, | 1:14:26 | 1:14:31 | |
making sure that they don't
separate. There are a few safety | 1:14:31 | 1:14:36 | |
mechanisms in place, ensuring you
never end up away from your skis. | 1:14:36 | 1:14:39 | |
Look at that from Prevc! He is on
the left there. | 1:14:39 | 1:14:53 | |
You might just be able to make out
this helmet and that is a lion or a | 1:15:00 | 1:15:07 | |
tiger painting on top of his helmet
because his last name, Kot, it means | 1:15:07 | 1:15:15 | |
cat in Poland. So this is Kot for
Poland. To Polish athletes and this | 1:15:15 | 1:15:23 | |
is another guy who really can
compete. He has watched his | 1:15:23 | 1:15:28 | |
team-mates Kamil Stoch and Stefan
Hula putting themselves in great | 1:15:28 | 1:15:32 | |
medal positions. | 1:15:32 | 1:15:39 | |
medal positions. But he could do it.
He's from a dynasty of Polish | 1:15:39 | 1:15:46 | |
jumping that has been so much fun to
watch over the last 20 years. He | 1:15:46 | 1:15:51 | |
also will have to wait because this
is the wind delay we have been | 1:15:51 | 1:15:56 | |
talking about. If wind conditions
are not right you shuffle back off | 1:15:56 | 1:16:01 | |
the gate and someone gives you that
Patching blanket. -- fetching. Maybe | 1:16:01 | 1:16:11 | |
you should be allowed to have a
cape. So essentially he's being | 1:16:11 | 1:16:15 | |
smuggled until such time as the wind
conditions change. Meanwhile Peter | 1:16:15 | 1:16:20 | |
Prevc getting to sit in the hot
seat. The actual warmth of that hot | 1:16:20 | 1:16:28 | |
seat to be determined! And he will
remain there until such time as | 1:16:28 | 1:16:33 | |
someone out jumps him. | 1:16:33 | 1:16:39 | |
someone out jumps him. Now Kot
coming back out of the blanket. Have | 1:16:39 | 1:16:43 | |
the conditions changed? He was part
of the Polish team that took gold at | 1:16:43 | 1:16:48 | |
the World Championships last year.
So we have Kamil Stoch the defending | 1:16:48 | 1:16:57 | |
Olympic China -- champion, Stefan
Hula, and now Kot and when you put | 1:16:57 | 1:17:01 | |
them in one team right now they're
looking like a pretty unstoppable | 1:17:01 | 1:17:07 | |
force. There is a team event at this
Olympics and you would be wise at | 1:17:07 | 1:17:12 | |
this point to back Poland. Now will
the wind let him jump this time? Now | 1:17:12 | 1:17:20 | |
is the answer to that. This is the
frustration of ski jumping. You wait | 1:17:20 | 1:17:26 | |
and wait but the wind will not let
you go. When it turns red on the | 1:17:26 | 1:17:31 | |
graphic that means that the wind is
not acceptable for jumping. Not only | 1:17:31 | 1:17:36 | |
wind speed but the cross wind as
well. Crosswind obviously not safe | 1:17:36 | 1:17:43 | |
because you need to make sure your
competitors stay within the bounds | 1:17:43 | 1:17:47 | |
of the course. But equally I know
from the camera angles you see that | 1:17:47 | 1:17:54 | |
ski jumping looks jaw-dropping in
terms of how high up the athletes | 1:17:54 | 1:17:57 | |
are but if you were to be there
underneath, there are about ten, 15 | 1:17:57 | 1:18:03 | |
feet off the ground at all times but
never really more like that. You're | 1:18:03 | 1:18:07 | |
relatively close to the ground all
the time. And these lines are little | 1:18:07 | 1:18:12 | |
sprigs of pine and they are put in
mind so that you have depth | 1:18:12 | 1:18:18 | |
perception. You could look at those
lines and that lets them know how | 1:18:18 | 1:18:23 | |
far off the ground they are.
Otherwise if you look at a bright | 1:18:23 | 1:18:29 | |
white surface on its own it could be
really difficult to actually know | 1:18:29 | 1:18:34 | |
whether you are a couple of feet or
ten feet above the ground. So that | 1:18:34 | 1:18:39 | |
is how the ski jumpers know how
close they are to landing, they use | 1:18:39 | 1:18:43 | |
these little lines of pines. So
we're waiting for the wind. Kot | 1:18:43 | 1:18:56 | |
waiting for the wind and all those
behind as well. Right the way | 1:18:56 | 1:19:04 | |
through to Kamil Stoch and Stefan
Hula as well. There is a waiting | 1:19:04 | 1:19:11 | |
room, these guys are in there. And
you just have to sit there and bide | 1:19:11 | 1:19:15 | |
your time. It becomes a mental
challenge even more so than it | 1:19:15 | 1:19:21 | |
already is. Because you need to
retain your focus. Great for him | 1:19:21 | 1:19:26 | |
because he has already jumped. Peter
Prevc can afford to spend as long as | 1:19:26 | 1:19:33 | |
he likes hanging around in hot seat
because his work is done. But all | 1:19:33 | 1:19:37 | |
these guys out there ready to jump,
they have to wait for however long. | 1:19:37 | 1:19:47 | |
Making these movements to keep warm.
Anything that you can do to keep | 1:19:47 | 1:19:54 | |
warm. Even if it just means
adjusting those bindings are little | 1:19:54 | 1:20:01 | |
bit. And these are the coaches and
they have nothing to do except to | 1:20:01 | 1:20:06 | |
wait and waive those flags when they
want their athlete to jump. | 1:20:06 | 1:20:10 | |
Otherwise they stand in the cold and
watch for years of their work fly | 1:20:10 | 1:20:16 | |
past them and hope it works out. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:26 | |
past them and hope it works out. So
Kot, will the cats be let out of the | 1:20:27 | 1:20:28 | |
bag? Time ticking away,
expressionless. Athletes still | 1:20:28 | 1:20:37 | |
warming up in the background. The
coach waiting with the flag. As soon | 1:20:37 | 1:20:40 | |
as he drops that, Kot gets to go and
there it goes. At last Kot gets to | 1:20:40 | 1:20:48 | |
go. Straight in the Lakes, locking
the ankles. And the distance a | 1:20:48 | 1:20:58 | |
little underwhelming after all of
that. The Polish coach did not | 1:20:58 | 1:21:05 | |
deliver that fist pump. Practically
the first time I've seen that. So | 1:21:05 | 1:21:10 | |
once again in slow motion, the
timing so critical. Holding that | 1:21:10 | 1:21:18 | |
form. Telemark landing. A good
landing as well. The judges liked | 1:21:18 | 1:21:27 | |
it. Good enough for fourth place
right now. And we move on. | 1:21:27 | 1:21:45 | |
Ito from Japan. | 1:21:49 | 1:21:55 | |
Waiting for the green light. Another
wind delay. The gentleman at the | 1:22:00 | 1:22:08 | |
front leading the way in keeping
warm! And Ito has nothing much more | 1:22:08 | 1:22:14 | |
to do than just to keep moving,
trying to keep warm and waiting for | 1:22:14 | 1:22:18 | |
the wind delay to be over. This
entire event has been affected this | 1:22:18 | 1:22:24 | |
evening. Nothing like this on
Thursday, very different wind | 1:22:24 | 1:22:27 | |
conditions. And now at least -12 out
there. So small wonder the | 1:22:27 | 1:22:35 | |
competitors behind his right
shoulder are jumping up and down. | 1:22:35 | 1:22:39 | |
Here goes Ito. | 1:22:39 | 1:22:46 | |
Here goes Ito. Just leaning to the
right little bit at the end. A | 1:22:46 | 1:22:50 | |
little bit short distance. I think
he will be happy enough with that. | 1:22:50 | 1:22:54 | |
102 metres. Not challenging for a
medal but probably what you would | 1:22:54 | 1:23:03 | |
have expected from Ito. He only came
back from a shoulder dislocation a | 1:23:03 | 1:23:08 | |
short time ago. That happened in
November. One of many ski jumpers | 1:23:08 | 1:23:14 | |
with an injury story to tell. Just
had to lean into the landing a | 1:23:14 | 1:23:18 | |
little bit. Into fifth place.
Now next up | 1:23:18 | 1:23:40 | |
will be McKenzie Boyd-Clowes. Coming
from a country with virtually no ski | 1:23:54 | 1:24:02 | |
jump heritage, Canada. This sport is
about the Scandinavians, the Eastern | 1:24:02 | 1:24:06 | |
Europeans and occasionally Japan.
That is where you get most of the | 1:24:06 | 1:24:12 | |
medallists from but Canada and the
US are starting to produce athletes | 1:24:12 | 1:24:16 | |
that can deliver on the Olympic
stage and that is really exciting | 1:24:16 | 1:24:20 | |
for ski jumping. Now you have much
more genuine conversation. And this | 1:24:20 | 1:24:25 | |
week McKenzie Boyd-Clowes has looked
fantastic. They train together, | 1:24:25 | 1:24:32 | |
Canada and the US, forming what they
call unofficially team US and | 1:24:32 | 1:24:41 | |
Canada. It seems to be paying off.
Those red arrows again holding us | 1:24:41 | 1:24:49 | |
up. The jury must be satisfied that
it will turn blue and stay blue | 1:24:49 | 1:24:54 | |
portly sometime. The coaches on the
left trying to stay warm, shifting | 1:24:54 | 1:24:59 | |
their feet. Peter Prevc hanging on
to see if someone can touch that | 1:24:59 | 1:25:07 | |
score. | 1:25:07 | 1:25:15 | |
score. Now McKenzie Boyd-Clowes
getting the green light. | 1:25:16 | 1:25:21 | |
getting the green light. Not quite
as good as his last job. I think | 1:25:22 | 1:25:29 | |
that illustrates it was not quite so
good. 98.5 metres. Disappointing for | 1:25:29 | 1:25:34 | |
McKenzie Boyd-Clowes. He had a
really good first-round jump. This | 1:25:34 | 1:25:40 | |
time around could not quite deliver
on it. | 1:25:40 | 1:25:47 | |
And he will have two be content with
being out of the medals but he is | 1:25:47 | 1:25:51 | |
going to finish I would suggest
about 20, 30 places higher in the | 1:25:51 | 1:25:57 | |
standings and I think most people
would have put him. Probably | 1:25:57 | 1:26:03 | |
finishing around 20th overall. That
is a solid effort. | 1:26:03 | 1:26:14 | |
is a solid effort. So Olympic
athlete from Russia, Kornilov. He | 1:26:14 | 1:26:17 | |
used to have a lucky charm that he
would touch, keep an eye out for | 1:26:17 | 1:26:21 | |
that. 31 years old. | 1:26:21 | 1:26:30 | |
that. 31 years old. 48th in Sochi,
his home Olympics. | 1:26:31 | 1:26:42 | |
The coach tells him hang on, we do
not have the green light. It is | 1:26:42 | 1:26:47 | |
frustrating. | 1:26:47 | 1:26:53 | |
frustrating. Really frustrating for
these guys because they have been | 1:26:53 | 1:26:56 | |
working for four years to come here.
And these gusts of wind are just | 1:26:56 | 1:27:02 | |
coming out such an unfortunate
moment for them. With this | 1:27:02 | 1:27:06 | |
disruption in the rhythm, you just
end up having to spend an extra | 1:27:06 | 1:27:12 | |
couple of minutes at the top on that
start gate contemplating what you | 1:27:12 | 1:27:17 | |
need to do. And if you overthink
this sport that can be quite | 1:27:17 | 1:27:21 | |
damaging. Stefan Kraft was recently
addressing his issues with | 1:27:21 | 1:27:28 | |
inconsistency this season, he had a
fantastic year in 2016, 2017 but he | 1:27:28 | 1:27:35 | |
really struggled this season and he
said it is because sometimes in ski | 1:27:35 | 1:27:40 | |
jumping you worry too much about
things and you lose the kind of | 1:27:40 | 1:27:43 | |
natural feeling for it. A bit like
golf, you start to think so much | 1:27:43 | 1:27:50 | |
about an individual error that you
lose your natural affinity and the | 1:27:50 | 1:27:54 | |
moment you do that in ski jumping,
the landings go, the take-offs and | 1:27:54 | 1:28:00 | |
timing is so critical. If you're
outdoor form it can be really | 1:28:00 | 1:28:04 | |
difficult to get back it. -- if you
are out or form. So if you need to | 1:28:04 | 1:28:10 | |
spend an extra minute at the top of
the start gate, that can have a real | 1:28:10 | 1:28:14 | |
impact. Kornilov will try again.
Watched the light on the bottom | 1:28:14 | 1:28:22 | |
right hand side and there we go, it
is green. The inn run, legs | 1:28:22 | 1:28:30 | |
straight. | 1:28:30 | 1:28:35 | |
straight. The landing was a little
bit disorganised and the distance is | 1:28:35 | 1:28:41 | |
no good. 96.5 metres. | 1:28:41 | 1:28:47 | |
A little adjustment with the left
arm. | 1:28:53 | 1:29:00 | |
arm. Coming down into the landing.
And the left ski just needed a | 1:29:00 | 1:29:07 | |
couple of corrections. 95.7 overall.
Probably not good enough to do | 1:29:07 | 1:29:16 | |
anything like what he was looking
for. | 1:29:16 | 1:29:22 | |
for. Kasai, probably the world's
most popular ski jumper, 45 years | 1:29:23 | 1:29:30 | |
old. Olympics number eight, jumping
in a final. Shock silver medallist | 1:29:30 | 1:29:36 | |
at Sochi 2014 but probably not
tonight. The Japanese fans do not | 1:29:36 | 1:29:42 | |
care, they love him. He has talked
about competing in the 2026 Winter | 1:29:42 | 1:29:48 | |
Olympics. He would be 53. Imagine
doing that at 53. | 1:29:48 | 1:30:01 | |
Imagine doing that now, frankly! The
concentration on his face is | 1:30:01 | 1:30:07 | |
fantastic, eight Olympics, a new | 1:30:07 | 1:30:09 | |
concentration on his face is
fantastic, eight Olympics, a new | 1:30:09 | 1:30:09 | |
record, nobody has done that at the
Winter Olympics. In any sport. Did | 1:30:09 | 1:30:14 | |
not even bother with a warm up jump
tonight. He got straight into it. | 1:30:14 | 1:30:17 | |
Only after he did that. It's the
kind of privilege that it Olympics | 1:30:17 | 1:30:22 | |
would give you. 98 point -- 90 9.4,
not great in the scheme of things | 1:30:22 | 1:30:30 | |
but he will get a great reception.
We move on to Andreas Stjernen. | 1:30:30 | 1:30:37 | |
Norway is a big ski jumping country.
He has been a little short tonight. | 1:30:37 | 1:30:51 | |
He has never really challenged in
this final. | 1:30:51 | 1:30:57 | |
this final. The second round, he may
be a little low, I would suggest. | 1:30:58 | 1:31:06 | |
It's incredibly late at night now,
it is 11:46pm local time. As Hazel | 1:31:09 | 1:31:16 | |
was saying earlier, day one is about
to turn into Day two! Temperatures | 1:31:16 | 1:31:21 | |
at about minus 12. 111.3. Slightly
lower than his first-round score. | 1:31:21 | 1:31:31 | |
It's enough to put him in third for
now. What an impressive man this | 1:31:31 | 1:31:35 | |
was! He's only 21 years old, and he
delivered such a stunning job, | 1:31:35 | 1:31:40 | |
particularly for an American ski
jumper, Kevin Bickner, they look so | 1:31:40 | 1:31:46 | |
much better than they have done four
and eight years ago. The American | 1:31:46 | 1:31:51 | |
unit have been so exciting to watch.
Consistency will get you up there. | 1:31:51 | 1:31:56 | |
Can he deliver a second great jump?
Watch the green line... It doesn't | 1:31:56 | 1:32:01 | |
come for us. | 1:32:01 | 1:32:06 | |
come for us. The first job was
really fantastic, the second is what | 1:32:07 | 1:32:11 | |
we ordinarily expect. A reminder to
everyone watching, they come back | 1:32:11 | 1:32:20 | |
later in the Olympics. It is a
slightly larger hill and a slightly | 1:32:20 | 1:32:31 | |
longer distance. Nobody here is
going home after this. All | 1:32:31 | 1:32:35 | |
competitors have one more individual
event to come. Even though Kevin | 1:32:35 | 1:32:40 | |
Bickner is out of the medals tonight
he can take his momentum from that | 1:32:40 | 1:32:45 | |
incredible first-round jump and
transfer it to the large later on. | 1:32:45 | 1:32:50 | |
Back to Norway, waiting for the
green light, Daniel Andre Tande. It | 1:32:50 | 1:32:58 | |
flicks the back of his hair, the
wind, as the gust swirls. It is -12 | 1:32:58 | 1:33:04 | |
degrees. It doesn't take into
account the wind chill, I would | 1:33:04 | 1:33:07 | |
estimate that we are looking at...
Probably about -16 and -17 where | 1:33:07 | 1:33:15 | |
Daniel Andre Tande is sat right now.
You get to know about that, on your | 1:33:15 | 1:33:20 | |
face! You can see the problem, the
wind in the middle, about five or | 1:33:20 | 1:33:24 | |
six metres per second, that is why
the jury have paused. It looks like | 1:33:24 | 1:33:32 | |
Daniel Andre Tande could be sat
there a while. Tande is the man I | 1:33:32 | 1:33:37 | |
told you about who was afraid of
heights. It is unlikely for a ski | 1:33:37 | 1:33:43 | |
jumper to be afraid of heights but
when he was painting his grandmother | 1:33:43 | 1:33:47 | |
's house, standing on a ladder on
the first floor looking down, his | 1:33:47 | 1:33:51 | |
fear was so paralysing it would take
in 30 minutes to get off. So he used | 1:33:51 | 1:33:56 | |
ski jumping as a kid to get over it.
Now he jumps in the Olympics! That's | 1:33:56 | 1:34:01 | |
one way of getting over it... What a
jump! Tande delivers. From his | 1:34:01 | 1:34:14 | |
grandmother's ladder to an
incredible Olympic jump for Daniel | 1:34:14 | 1:34:20 | |
Andre Tande. An excellent distance.
111.5 metres. Just short of what we | 1:34:20 | 1:34:31 | |
saw before from Peter Prevc. | 1:34:31 | 1:34:40 | |
saw before from Peter Prevc. I think
we will see Daniel Andre Tande going | 1:34:40 | 1:34:42 | |
into the lead, and Peter Prevc could
move into the hot seat. He is | 1:34:42 | 1:34:46 | |
impressed, Daniel Andre Tande is
very impressed! Judges, are you with | 1:34:46 | 1:34:51 | |
us? They love it! That's the overall
title to watch for. The new leader, | 1:34:51 | 1:35:04 | |
Daniel Andre Tande. A handshake to
Peter Prevc. That is the marker laid | 1:35:04 | 1:35:11 | |
down for the remaining 11 | 1:35:11 | 1:35:19 | |
down for the remaining 11 or 12,
now, just 20 years old from | 1:35:19 | 1:35:21 | |
Slovenia, Bartol. He's having the
same problems as everyone else, he | 1:35:21 | 1:35:25 | |
has two rate for the green light --
to wait for the green light. There | 1:35:25 | 1:35:31 | |
are ways you can mitigate this. If
the wind becomes too much of a | 1:35:31 | 1:35:35 | |
factor, the gate you see him on now,
they can actually move. They can | 1:35:35 | 1:35:40 | |
move the gate up or down. Going
down, it shrinks the amount of in | 1:35:40 | 1:35:44 | |
run that you have. That is
essentially the gap between the gate | 1:35:44 | 1:35:49 | |
and where you take off. With less
speed coming down because the gate | 1:35:49 | 1:35:53 | |
is lower down from you cannot go so
fast and basically it is safer. They | 1:35:53 | 1:35:59 | |
may adjust the gate but right now it
hasn't happened. He is back out | 1:35:59 | 1:36:06 | |
again, waiting for the coach to see
if he has the green light. | 1:36:06 | 1:36:18 | |
There is the coach, a time-honoured | 1:36:19 | 1:36:26 | |
ski tradition to have a flag that
like that that you let drop. | 1:36:26 | 1:36:33 | |
like that that you let drop. It's a
red light again. Another weight in | 1:36:33 | 1:36:38 | |
the cold for him. The officials will
come down with a blanket. I feel | 1:36:38 | 1:36:44 | |
like a range of fetching blankets
have been used this evening! And in | 1:36:44 | 1:36:48 | |
the waiting room, they are just
trying to stay awake. It is almost | 1:36:48 | 1:36:54 | |
midnight! | 1:36:54 | 1:37:00 | |
midnight! It is tough, no matter
where you are, on the top or in the | 1:37:00 | 1:37:04 | |
waiting room. Frankly right now, it
is tough to be a fan at the bottom! | 1:37:04 | 1:37:09 | |
Maybe not so tough, if you are in
the hot seat, Daniel Andre Tande. | 1:37:09 | 1:37:22 | |
Helmet off, let those locks
experience of the | 1:37:22 | 1:37:29 | |
experience of the -- let those locks
experience of the Chile Mack South | 1:37:30 | 1:37:33 | |
Korean air! Here we go again, the
windy situation... It is close to | 1:37:33 | 1:37:40 | |
going red. As soon as it is above
four metres per second, it becomes | 1:37:40 | 1:37:45 | |
an issue. They are going to try.
Tilen Bartol of Slovenia, he settles | 1:37:45 | 1:37:55 | |
in. 119 points in his first round.
Well-placed. | 1:37:55 | 1:38:03 | |
Well-placed. He would need around
about 123 points. To go ahead of | 1:38:03 | 1:38:07 | |
Daniel Andre Tande. That's
essentially what he scored. Here he | 1:38:07 | 1:38:13 | |
goes... | 1:38:13 | 1:38:18 | |
goes... It isn't going to be 123
points, I tell you that right now. | 1:38:21 | 1:38:27 | |
The distance wasn't quite there. 102
metres, that is down about nine | 1:38:27 | 1:38:30 | |
metres short of what we just saw
Daniel Andre Tande do. No shame on | 1:38:30 | 1:38:36 | |
Tilen Bartol, he's only 20 years
old. He wasn't picked as a contender | 1:38:36 | 1:38:41 | |
here really. If he gets in the top
15, a top 20 finish, it would easily | 1:38:41 | 1:38:46 | |
be the biggest result of his career.
23rd in the World Cup rankings right | 1:38:46 | 1:38:50 | |
now. | 1:38:50 | 1:38:57 | |
now. He goes fifth for now. That
brings up a man you have seen having | 1:38:57 | 1:39:08 | |
almost too much fun this evening,
Simon Ammann, two | 1:39:08 | 1:39:16 | |
Simon Ammann, two Olympics gold
medals at Salt Lake City in 2002. It | 1:39:17 | 1:39:23 | |
all went wrong in Sochi. He thought
about walking away. No big results | 1:39:23 | 1:39:27 | |
for years. He came back and he made
his way to Pyeongchang. He had so | 1:39:27 | 1:39:33 | |
much fun in qualifying in the first
round but if you were watching his | 1:39:33 | 1:39:36 | |
first-round jump earlier, he was the
happiest man alive. If he does it | 1:39:36 | 1:39:39 | |
again, he may actually have a shot
at a medal here. 119.4 points in he | 1:39:39 | 1:39:44 | |
first round. If you can get a 125
year, it isn't out of the question, | 1:39:44 | 1:39:53 | |
but he would push himself into first
place. -- 125 here. If anybody can | 1:39:53 | 1:40:02 | |
do that, it is Simon Ammann, a man
who has so much experience of | 1:40:02 | 1:40:09 | |
winning gold medals. Under pressure.
Pressure like this. The pressure of | 1:40:09 | 1:40:14 | |
sitting at the top and waiting for
the wind to be right. And bringing | 1:40:14 | 1:40:19 | |
home an Olympic medal. What is
interesting about landings, you have | 1:40:19 | 1:40:27 | |
seen Telemark Blandings. It doesn't
matter which led you land on, the | 1:40:27 | 1:40:30 | |
right leg or the left leg can be
forward but ordinarily ski jumpers | 1:40:30 | 1:40:35 | |
choose one and stick with it. For
Simon Ammann... You can see them | 1:40:35 | 1:40:41 | |
moving the gate, they are going
down. I will come back to Simon | 1:40:41 | 1:40:46 | |
Ammann in a minute, they shorten the
Enron, meaning you don't get so much | 1:40:46 | 1:40:50 | |
speed and it mitigates the wind
effect. You will see on Simon | 1:40:50 | 1:40:56 | |
Ammann's score there will be a gate
adjustment, because he did not have | 1:40:56 | 1:41:00 | |
as much speed and he could not go as
far, we will give him some points to | 1:41:00 | 1:41:05 | |
compensate. 3.2 gate compensation
points. However he does, he will get | 1:41:05 | 1:41:14 | |
those extra points. Simon Ammann, at
the 1998 Olympics where he started, | 1:41:14 | 1:41:19 | |
he used to land on his right knee.
Then he had trouble with it so he | 1:41:19 | 1:41:24 | |
switched to his left knee and won
all his with it so he switched to | 1:41:24 | 1:41:31 | |
his left knee and won all his on he
switched to his left knee and won | 1:41:31 | 1:41:35 | |
all his on the left. Now, he has
tried to switch back, and he is in a | 1:41:35 | 1:41:38 | |
no man's land. Pulling a face, and
shuffling back again. | 1:41:38 | 1:41:49 | |
shuffling back again. We use a golf
analogy, messing with the parting | 1:41:49 | 1:41:53 | |
strategy. If you win five majors and
go if you years without it, then you | 1:41:53 | 1:41:57 | |
have an entirely new way of putting,
that is what Simon Ammann is doing. | 1:41:57 | 1:42:02 | |
The talk before these Olympics was
that his landings were a mess but | 1:42:02 | 1:42:10 | |
now the four-time Olympic champion
has turned up, looking sensational | 1:42:10 | 1:42:14 | |
all week long. I cannot wait. When
we get the wind under control | 1:42:14 | 1:42:19 | |
eventually, I cannot wait to see
this jump. If Simon Ammann lands it, | 1:42:19 | 1:42:22 | |
we could have a story! But it is
going to have to be big. Very, very | 1:42:22 | 1:42:28 | |
big. We will still have after him
the best part of ten more to come. | 1:42:28 | 1:42:37 | |
Before we know who is going to be
crowned the first ski jump Olympic | 1:42:37 | 1:42:42 | |
champion of Pyeongchang 2018. Look
at the view, imagine being there! | 1:42:42 | 1:42:48 | |
And thinking about -- Simon Ammann
thinking of sliding out, you can see | 1:42:48 | 1:42:54 | |
him with the gold and black helmet.
You reach about 55 mph going down. | 1:42:54 | 1:42:58 | |
By the time you land, it is almost
60 mph, and in contact with the | 1:42:58 | 1:43:03 | |
crowd. If you are wondering how you
get into this, on the left of what | 1:43:03 | 1:43:10 | |
you are looking at now, there are
four or five Bunny hills, for want | 1:43:10 | 1:43:15 | |
of a better phrase. They gradually
go up in size. You start at ten | 1:43:15 | 1:43:20 | |
metres, then 30, then 50, then 100,
and you gradually build up. So | 1:43:20 | 1:43:25 | |
eight-year-olds do not have to face
this if they want to get into ski | 1:43:25 | 1:43:30 | |
jumping, it's not very practical.
You go to the much smaller hill and | 1:43:30 | 1:43:35 | |
you do a small jump with virtually
no danger attached to it. You build | 1:43:35 | 1:43:38 | |
on your skills and become a ski
jumper. Because it is so rare in the | 1:43:38 | 1:43:45 | |
UK and the facilities do not exist,
sometimes it is hard to imagine | 1:43:45 | 1:43:49 | |
where ski jumpers come from from
other countries. But it is gradually | 1:43:49 | 1:43:53 | |
built up, over gradual increases on
the Hill. There have been ski jumps | 1:43:53 | 1:43:58 | |
in the UK. In the 1950s, 60 tonnes
of snow were brought to Edinburgh | 1:43:58 | 1:44:04 | |
from Norway. There was a jump
created for a Scottish championship | 1:44:04 | 1:44:08 | |
which apparently brought in about
10,000 fans. Hampstead Heath had a | 1:44:08 | 1:44:11 | |
ski jump back in the day, they had
one for a year in the 1950s. | 1:44:11 | 1:44:17 | |
Manchester had won in 1960 over
reddish Vale. It had 40 foot of | 1:44:17 | 1:44:22 | |
scaffolding surrounding it. There
was a ski jump built at Wembley in | 1:44:22 | 1:44:26 | |
1961. But other than that, since the
1980s, there hasn't been anywhere in | 1:44:26 | 1:44:33 | |
the UK. There was talk five or ten
years ago that they would build one | 1:44:33 | 1:44:36 | |
in Wrexham. Naturally. It was going
to cost about £7 million for a new | 1:44:36 | 1:44:43 | |
national ski jump facility and
needless to say, that did not | 1:44:43 | 1:44:46 | |
happen. | 1:44:46 | 1:44:51 | |
STUDIO: Simon Ammann with a blanket
on, not sure of that will do good, | 1:45:18 | 1:45:25 | |
to be honest. These guys on the
biggest guys, don't carry a lot of | 1:45:25 | 1:45:29 | |
weight, there's not much of them,
they will get cold standing around | 1:45:29 | 1:45:34 | |
up there. They probably will. Weight
is an interesting thing in ski | 1:45:34 | 1:45:39 | |
jumping, the reason these guys are
not big is because the lie you are | 1:45:39 | 1:45:42 | |
the better you find your
aerodynamics and the further you go. | 1:45:42 | 1:45:47 | |
But there are rules brought into the
sport to make sure you cannot be too | 1:45:47 | 1:45:51 | |
underweight because in previous
years people tried to subsist on as | 1:45:51 | 1:45:54 | |
little as 200 calories a day to try
to stay as light as possible. It | 1:45:54 | 1:45:59 | |
just wasn't healthy, so now your
body mass index has to be above a | 1:45:59 | 1:46:03 | |
certain point, otherwise they trim
your skis, literally trimmed them | 1:46:03 | 1:46:07 | |
back so you have smaller wings and
cannot get the advantage. So weight | 1:46:07 | 1:46:11 | |
has been a big issue in this sport.
But that blanket, I | 1:46:11 | 1:46:25 | |
feel like blankets might also be an
issue in the sport because if I was | 1:46:27 | 1:46:30 | |
up there right now I would be
wanting a blanket possibly ten times | 1:46:30 | 1:46:32 | |
the size of that cocooned around me.
I don't know about body-mass index | 1:46:32 | 1:46:35 | |
upon the top of the ramp, the
un-run, but I am impressed by the | 1:46:35 | 1:46:38 | |
number of people down there, it is
gone midnight, officially day two, | 1:46:38 | 1:46:40 | |
and the last bus back to Seoul has
gone, it is impressive. It is | 1:46:40 | 1:46:46 | |
impressive, the atmosphere has been
fantastic. It must be hard for the | 1:46:46 | 1:46:49 | |
athletes on the hill to look down
below and see there are still | 1:46:49 | 1:46:53 | |
hundreds of fans lined up because
like you say, where we are right | 1:46:53 | 1:46:57 | |
now, it is not like the Pyeongchang
Winter Olympics are taking place in | 1:46:57 | 1:47:01 | |
a city. This is in the mountains,
there is a small resort here, but | 1:47:01 | 1:47:05 | |
you are by no means next to an urban
metropolis. You are in the sticks by | 1:47:05 | 1:47:10 | |
the standards of recent Winter
Olympics, so very few spectators | 1:47:10 | 1:47:15 | |
here will be anywhere near anything
they could call home, absolutely. | 1:47:15 | 1:47:23 | |
Now, we might have a little bit of
action. Let's see if Simon Ammann | 1:47:23 | 1:47:26 | |
can get away this time. | 1:47:26 | 1:47:30 | |
Got away per that orange light to
turn green, thousands of people in | 1:47:35 | 1:47:39 | |
the arena, millions around the world
is willing that Lauren should like | 1:47:39 | 1:47:42 | |
to just turn green. Go on! Go on! --
that orange light to turn green. | 1:47:42 | 1:47:50 | |
It's not looking good, is it? | 1:47:50 | 1:47:56 | |
It's not looking good, is it? Simon
Ammann, if anyone has the mental | 1:47:56 | 1:47:58 | |
capacity to deal with this, he has,
but boy will he want to get this | 1:47:58 | 1:48:02 | |
jump under way in the near future.
It's red again, look at the coach's | 1:48:02 | 1:48:09 | |
face! Oh! This is stressful. | 1:48:09 | 1:48:15 | |
Breathe out. Simon Ammann will sit
there again. He knows how to wait, | 1:48:24 | 1:48:31 | |
Simon Ammann, he was champion in
2002 en route to the double and | 1:48:31 | 1:48:35 | |
waited eight years to return to do
it again in Vancouver when he took | 1:48:35 | 1:48:38 | |
another goal, with a double double
at that point, so he is waiting a | 1:48:38 | 1:48:43 | |
very long time, but in all
seriousness, is there a danger as he | 1:48:43 | 1:48:47 | |
tries for a sixth time to get a
second jump completed that this | 1:48:47 | 1:48:50 | |
event might not be done tonight? I
don't know, is the answer to that. I | 1:48:50 | 1:48:57 | |
think they will go to the end, they
have ten more to go, and it would | 1:48:57 | 1:49:03 | |
seem an awkward time to have to make
that decision. If they do make that | 1:49:03 | 1:49:07 | |
decision they would have to rule out
this entire round then go from there | 1:49:07 | 1:49:11 | |
and either reschedule or take the
first-round result, but it looks | 1:49:11 | 1:49:14 | |
like we will get under way, and here
goes Simon Ammann with a cheer from | 1:49:14 | 1:49:18 | |
the fans because finally there is
some action. How will this jump | 1:49:18 | 1:49:22 | |
look? It's good, but not as good as
it needed to be. He is happy because | 1:49:22 | 1:49:27 | |
he is just glad to be back, and boy,
as | 1:49:27 | 1:49:37 | |
as he put in some impressive
performances. I don't think we would | 1:49:37 | 1:49:40 | |
see him with a medal around his neck
again. 16 years after he won double | 1:49:40 | 1:49:43 | |
gold in salt lake city, eight years
after double gold in Vancouver 2010. | 1:49:43 | 1:49:45 | |
But Simon Ammann is easily going to
win the medal for the happiest man | 1:49:45 | 1:49:49 | |
in the arena tonight, even if
someone else wins gold. He had a | 1:49:49 | 1:49:55 | |
smile on his face before he even
landed. It's just happy to be back. | 1:49:55 | 1:49:59 | |
It has been a long time for a
four-time Olympic champion since he | 1:49:59 | 1:50:04 | |
did anything of note on the world
circuit, it was 2011 the last time | 1:50:04 | 1:50:07 | |
he picked up a major medal. His
score is 236.6, goes into second | 1:50:07 | 1:50:16 | |
place. I'm confident that school
will be overtaken but you never | 1:50:16 | 1:50:19 | |
know, the way the conditions are and
these weights at the top. Anything | 1:50:19 | 1:50:24 | |
could happen, and at the moment,
Simon Ammann could be on track to | 1:50:24 | 1:50:28 | |
get another Olympic medal, and that
would | 1:50:28 | 1:50:35 | |
would equal the 1980s and 1990s
finishers. | 1:50:36 | 1:50:45 | |
finishers. But there is a long way
to go. Green light. Flagged down. | 1:50:46 | 1:50:54 | |
Finally, a little bit of consistent
action, and Robert Johansson makes | 1:50:54 | 1:50:58 | |
his way down. Oh! What a jump! What
a jump! And the aerodynamics of the | 1:50:58 | 1:51:14 | |
moustache paid off because that is a
fantastic jump from Robert Johansson | 1:51:14 | 1:51:18 | |
of Norway. He was only 19th in
qualifying, looked like he wouldn't | 1:51:18 | 1:51:24 | |
pull out much here at the
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The | 1:51:24 | 1:51:27 | |
only member of the Norwegian team
that doesn't have a World Cup win | 1:51:27 | 1:51:30 | |
this season. I think he's about to
take the lead. From his team-mate, | 1:51:30 | 1:51:36 | |
Daniel Andre Tande. Phenomenal jump.
LAUGHTER | 1:51:36 | 1:51:42 | |
Daniel Andre Tande. Phenomenal jump.
LAUGHTER. Disposed of the normal | 1:51:42 | 1:51:48 | |
fist bumps. High fives. Tande I
think knows that he will probably be | 1:51:48 | 1:51:53 | |
kicked out of the hot seat. Fabulous
jump, 249.7, Robert Johansson into | 1:51:53 | 1:52:00 | |
first place, and we are starting to
run out of people still to come. | 1:52:00 | 1:52:07 | |
Ryoyu Kobayashi, the younger
Kobayashi brother. | 1:52:07 | 1:52:15 | |
Kobayashi brother. Oh, it's good,
too. Not quite as far as it may be | 1:52:15 | 1:52:18 | |
needed to be, but now we are into
the business end of this | 1:52:18 | 1:52:22 | |
competition, the wind letting us get
a few jumps in, and we are starting | 1:52:22 | 1:52:26 | |
to feel the excitement of an Olympic
final that we always know could go | 1:52:26 | 1:52:30 | |
any way of eight or ten ways. Good,
straight form. Love that facial | 1:52:30 | 1:52:42 | |
expression, look at that,
concentration. Almost gulping in the | 1:52:42 | 1:52:45 | |
scenery in front of him. Down into
the Telemark. It is a good jump. I | 1:52:45 | 1:52:52 | |
don't know if it will be good
enough. It's a good jump. | 1:52:52 | 1:52:59 | |
It is his Olympic debut, his
brother's Olympic debut. 240.8, into | 1:53:02 | 1:53:09 | |
third for now. That unseats Simon
Ammann, no medal for Samantha man | 1:53:09 | 1:53:12 | |
here. -- no medal for Simon Ammann.
At the moment one, Robert Johansson, | 1:53:12 | 1:53:21 | |
two Tande, the Norwegian, and Ryoyu
Kobayashi in number three. Now Karl | 1:53:21 | 1:53:27 | |
Geiger, surprise German sensation.
He is a well-known German ski | 1:53:27 | 1:53:31 | |
jumper, | 1:53:31 | 1:53:38 | |
jumper, opportunities have been
handed to people like Karl Geiger by | 1:53:38 | 1:53:42 | |
injury. He is taking that
opportunity. Watch this jump. Good, | 1:53:42 | 1:53:49 | |
solid jump. Not enough, I think, to
get into the medals. But he, as a | 1:53:49 | 1:53:58 | |
24-year-old, ranked 16th in the
world, is not expected to be | 1:53:58 | 1:54:02 | |
operating at the top end. He's
having a great Olympics so far. | 1:54:02 | 1:54:10 | |
Distance of 105 metres on this jump.
Couldn't see anything massively | 1:54:15 | 1:54:23 | |
wrong from a judging point of view,
I think it's just the distance | 1:54:23 | 1:54:25 | |
that's going to disappoint him. The
judging scores are good, it is that | 1:54:25 | 1:54:34 | |
distance, 236.7, more importantly,
fourth place, he just misses out. | 1:54:34 | 1:54:38 | |
Robert Johansson gets to hang out in
that hot seat. Markus Eisenbichler, | 1:54:38 | 1:54:44 | |
another German. This man does have
major event form, medal in the world | 1:54:44 | 1:54:49 | |
-- bronze medal in the World
Championships last year. | 1:54:49 | 1:54:59 | |
Again, it's pushing, but it's not
maybe enough. Oh, another three or | 1:54:59 | 1:55:04 | |
four on that... 106.5 will be a
little lower than he needed. We have | 1:55:04 | 1:55:14 | |
had 113.5 from Robert Johansson.
That is the target to beat at this | 1:55:14 | 1:55:18 | |
point. If anyone goes above 113.5 at
this point they are getting | 1:55:18 | 1:55:23 | |
themselves probably an Olympic
medal, possibly an Olympic gold, but | 1:55:23 | 1:55:27 | |
when you get back to 106 like this
one, a bit of an iffy landing, that | 1:55:27 | 1:55:34 | |
won't do it from Markus
Eisenbichler. | 1:55:34 | 1:55:40 | |
Eisenbichler. Fourth place. Stefan
Kraft, the world champion. World | 1:55:41 | 1:55:52 | |
champion in both events, normal hill
and large hill. Phenomenal 2016-17, | 1:55:52 | 1:55:57 | |
struggled this year, now would be a
very good time to come out of that. | 1:55:57 | 1:56:03 | |
He has to wait for the wind. He
would be the third Austrian to win | 1:56:03 | 1:56:10 | |
an Olympic normal hill title if he
can pull out something fantastic | 1:56:10 | 1:56:14 | |
when he gets back green light. --
get back green light. Still here, | 1:56:14 | 1:56:22 | |
phenomenal for those fans. Well past
midnight local time. All these | 1:56:22 | 1:56:30 | |
delays, -12, Winter Olympics fans,
love them! So, we will wait for | 1:56:30 | 1:56:37 | |
Stefan Kraft. He was second when
they held the World Cup on this hill | 1:56:37 | 1:56:41 | |
a year ago as a test event. So he
has form here as the world champion. | 1:56:41 | 1:56:49 | |
He holds the ski flying world
record, once travelled 253.5 metres | 1:56:49 | 1:56:56 | |
in the air. Imagine that! We are
looking at 100 metres over this | 1:56:56 | 1:57:01 | |
Hill. That is more than double the
record he holds. And now he has the | 1:57:01 | 1:57:08 | |
green light, what does he have here?
Again, it's not quite up there, and | 1:57:08 | 1:57:18 | |
he slaps his hands down onto his
lies and knows the world champion is | 1:57:18 | 1:57:23 | |
not going to become Olympic
champion. -- onto his legs. Not | 1:57:23 | 1:57:27 | |
tonight. 103 metres on that jump
will not be enough. He can produce | 1:57:27 | 1:57:37 | |
the most artistic, perfectly styled
jump in the world. But it's not | 1:57:37 | 1:57:42 | |
going to get him on the podium if he
doesn't jump far enough. That is the | 1:57:42 | 1:57:48 | |
reaction from the coach, on the
verge of tossing that flag away. | 1:57:48 | 1:57:51 | |
Stefan Kraft, eighth place, that is
a phenomenally disappointing jump. | 1:57:51 | 1:57:55 | |
What did I tell you? It's not his
season. | 1:57:55 | 1:58:00 | |
We are running out of people who can
unseat Robert Johansson. One of them | 1:58:03 | 1:58:10 | |
is Andreas Wellinger, one
qualifying, 124.9 points from his | 1:58:10 | 1:58:17 | |
first round. This looks like it
could be good! It's long. It looked | 1:58:17 | 1:58:24 | |
like it might be golden. 113.5. That
is exactly the same distance as | 1:58:24 | 1:58:34 | |
Robert Johansson. Wellinger held a
5-point advantage from the first | 1:58:34 | 1:58:41 | |
round. As long as the judges don't
see anything wrong wrong with this, | 1:58:41 | 1:58:45 | |
and it | 1:58:45 | 1:58:50 | |
and it looked good, into that
Telemark, maybe taking an extra | 1:58:51 | 1:58:53 | |
second two to get in there.
Beautifully held, the coaches all in | 1:58:53 | 1:58:57 | |
favour of that. -- the coach is all
in favour. And Andreas Wellinger, I | 1:58:57 | 1:59:07 | |
think, is going to go first, there
he is, first place, Andreas | 1:59:07 | 1:59:12 | |
Wellinger, with only four more to
watch. The first of which is his | 1:59:12 | 1:59:19 | |
team-mate Richard Freitag. He is the
German the Germans thought was going | 1:59:19 | 1:59:24 | |
to win. Suddenly you have Andreas
Wellinger to deal with. And that is | 1:59:24 | 1:59:28 | |
not going to push Wellinger off the
top. Richard Freitag... He looked so | 1:59:28 | 1:59:36 | |
good at the start of the season, and
in the last few weeks, his form has | 1:59:36 | 1:59:42 | |
evaporated. | 1:59:42 | 1:59:46 | |
Don't get me wrong, still an
exceptionally good job but at the | 1:59:46 | 1:59:52 | |
time he really needed to push
Bourday. You see him land, in case | 1:59:52 | 1:59:55 | |
you're wondering where they measure
it from, it is the middle point of | 1:59:55 | 1:59:58 | |
the feet. If you land with your feet
together, you measure from the boot | 1:59:58 | 2:00:03 | |
laces. If you land with your feet
apart, that is the landing distance. | 2:00:03 | 2:00:11 | |
Richard Freitag misses out on a
medal and he goes sixth. We have | 2:00:11 | 2:00:15 | |
athletes remaining. -- three
athletes remaining. Johann Andre | 2:00:15 | 2:00:23 | |
Forfang. 22. And all the pressure on
the world. -- in the world. | 2:00:23 | 2:00:38 | |
Consistency has been his issue all
along. He has beaten Kamil Stoch | 2:00:38 | 2:00:43 | |
before. He knows how to win, even at
this young age. He has the green | 2:00:43 | 2:00:48 | |
light. | 2:00:48 | 2:00:56 | |
light. Has it got the length? It's
good, but is it good enough? It may | 2:00:56 | 2:01:01 | |
have fallen short. Might have fallen
short. 109.5 metres. He had a | 2:01:01 | 2:01:13 | |
1-point advantage over Wellinger
from the first round. I don't know | 2:01:13 | 2:01:18 | |
that is going to be enough. This is
where your style points coming. It's | 2:01:18 | 2:01:23 | |
possible to win with a jump that
isn't as far as your Bibles, if it | 2:01:23 | 2:01:28 | |
looked better and the judges liked
it more. -- as your rivals. It's | 2:01:28 | 2:01:31 | |
happened before and will happen
again but you don't want to rely on | 2:01:31 | 2:01:38 | |
it. And it is second place, Forfang.
Wellinger has 29.5 three. So far in | 2:01:38 | 2:01:49 | |
front but now we have two incredible
jumpers to come, starting with the | 2:01:49 | 2:01:53 | |
man defending his Olympic title,
Kamil Stoch. 125.9, from the first | 2:01:53 | 2:02:01 | |
round. He needs an even bigger jump
now. | 2:02:01 | 2:02:06 | |
I don't think he got it. I think
Wellinger might hold onto this. | 2:02:10 | 2:02:21 | |
Kamil Stoch had been looking to
become the most successful Polish | 2:02:21 | 2:02:27 | |
Winter Olympian in history. Just
needed that one more gold medal to | 2:02:27 | 2:02:34 | |
do it. Would have been the first
athlete to win consecutive men's | 2:02:34 | 2:02:37 | |
normal hill gold. I think that won't
be what he needs. | 2:02:37 | 2:02:48 | |
That tells you that Andreas
Wellinger thinks he's probably safe. | 2:02:53 | 2:03:01 | |
And he is, and he is, there is the
result. Not even a medal for the | 2:03:01 | 2:03:09 | |
defending Olympic champion. What an
unpredictable sport this is. | 2:03:09 | 2:03:13 | |
Wellinger knows he is one jump away,
one jump from being an Olympic | 2:03:13 | 2:03:20 | |
medallist and it is this man, Stefan
Hula, for Poland, jumping for gold. | 2:03:20 | 2:03:29 | |
Into the air. How long is it? Does
it have the length? Oh, it's close! | 2:03:29 | 2:03:38 | |
I don't think is going to be enough.
105.5 metres, surely not enough. | 2:03:38 | 2:03:46 | |
They have to wait for the scores.
Stefan Hula needed more. Such a | 2:03:46 | 2:03:50 | |
phenomenal first jump. He has a six,
seven point lead almost from the | 2:03:50 | 2:03:57 | |
first round. But did he need more? | 2:03:57 | 2:04:02 | |
His form looks good all the way
down, almost motionless, bringing | 2:04:07 | 2:04:11 | |
the legs together. It is a fine
Telemark landing as well. But is the | 2:04:11 | 2:04:15 | |
distance enough? I don't think it
is. | 2:04:15 | 2:04:26 | |
is. It's nowhere near enough, Stefan
Hula is fifth, 248.8. And your | 2:04:26 | 2:04:33 | |
Olympic champion is Germany's
Andreas Wellinger. Everyone thought | 2:04:33 | 2:04:38 | |
his team-mate Richard Freitag would
be the gold medallist. Wellinger won | 2:04:38 | 2:04:46 | |
qualifying and announced himself,
saying he didn't mind the pressure | 2:04:46 | 2:04:49 | |
and he came back and back again with
phenomenal jumps. And he is your | 2:04:49 | 2:04:56 | |
Pyeongchang 2018 men's normal hill
Olympic champion, the first German | 2:04:56 | 2:05:01 | |
to do that since the mid-19 90s. A
series of sensational jumps in the | 2:05:01 | 2:05:10 | |
trickiest of conditions. The Silver
Medal, to Norway's Johann Andre | 2:05:10 | 2:05:15 | |
Forfang. | 2:05:15 | 2:05:20 | |
Forfang. Bronze, Robert Johansson.
No one could have predicted that. | 2:05:20 | 2:05:24 | |
The world champion is off the
podium, the Olympic champion is off | 2:05:24 | 2:05:30 | |
the podium. Wellinger, the
22-year-old who, four years ago, | 2:05:30 | 2:05:34 | |
ruined his first round jump and took
himself out of the reckoning in | 2:05:34 | 2:05:38 | |
Sochi, comes back and delivers. He
is the Olympic champion. The Germans | 2:05:38 | 2:05:46 | |
are on the medal table. STUDIO: They
are, and in a big way. That is | 2:05:46 | 2:05:54 | |
Germany's first gold medal in the
normal hill | 2:05:54 | 2:06:00 | |
normal hill since 1984, so a very
long time to wait and it's been | 2:06:01 | 2:06:04 | |
worth the wait for those German
fans. Either that or they are just | 2:06:04 | 2:06:08 | |
cold and are just trying to keep
warm! May be a bit of both. Germany | 2:06:08 | 2:06:16 | |
winning gold, Poland, bereft because
their top two haven't managed to do | 2:06:16 | 2:06:19 | |
it. | 2:06:19 | 2:06:19 | |
their top two haven't managed to do
it. The time-out there is now 20 | 2:06:19 | 2:06:23 | |
past midnight! I've been at four
kills tournaments over the years for | 2:06:23 | 2:06:28 | |
ski jumping and I've never known
anything to last this long, way | 2:06:28 | 2:06:31 | |
beyond midnight. Worth it for
Germany. Some of you will be binge | 2:06:31 | 2:06:37 | |
watching the Winter Olympics into
the small hours. No need, it appears | 2:06:37 | 2:06:41 | |
they are willing to turn night into
day for us. That's what we've got | 2:06:41 | 2:06:46 | |
and that has put our timing is way
off and no complaints, great to see | 2:06:46 | 2:06:52 | |
some live sport. But we have quite a
bit to catch up with, especially | 2:06:52 | 2:06:58 | |
snowboarding and ice hockey. It is
the snowboarding first because it | 2:06:58 | 2:07:02 | |
made its Winter Olympics debut in
Nagano in 1998. The parallel giant | 2:07:02 | 2:07:07 | |
slalom we were watching them but we
had to wait a long time before | 2:07:07 | 2:07:10 | |
Saatchi, four years ago, to see
slopestyle, co-opted from the very | 2:07:10 | 2:07:16 | |
trendy ex-games and it has made a
huge impression. The riders are | 2:07:16 | 2:07:23 | |
writing a series of rails and
kickers to impress the judges and in | 2:07:23 | 2:07:27 | |
Sochi Billy Morgan became the first
rider to take part in the sport. | 2:07:27 | 2:07:38 | |
Is this going to be a last Olympics?
Before the Olympics came up I | 2:07:40 | 2:07:44 | |
thought this was going to be my last
one but I'm hoping that it separates | 2:07:44 | 2:07:51 | |
the slopestyle and the Biggar and I
can do the big air. If they separate | 2:07:51 | 2:07:55 | |
them I could just do the big air.
You did a triple backslide Rodeo, | 2:07:55 | 2:08:05 | |
the first man to do that. My God! It
stands to reason that big air is | 2:08:05 | 2:08:11 | |
your discipline. When that was
included in the Olympics did you rub | 2:08:11 | 2:08:15 | |
your hands like this, saying oh,
yes? Not really because I thought I | 2:08:15 | 2:08:20 | |
had done the quad, which was amazing
but it was also the scariest thing | 2:08:20 | 2:08:24 | |
I've ever done. Was it? Because it
was on such a specific jump I | 2:08:24 | 2:08:30 | |
thought I hope I don't have to do it
under pressure. Stoked to get it | 2:08:30 | 2:08:33 | |
done. And the big air in the
Olympics, I'll have to give it | 2:08:33 | 2:08:38 | |
another go. Is it still scary? Yeah,
well, I only did it once and I | 2:08:38 | 2:08:45 | |
haven't done it since. We keep
coming out with the objective to try | 2:08:45 | 2:08:50 | |
it again. But we haven't had a jump
big enough yet or I've been too | 2:08:50 | 2:08:56 | |
scared, one of the two! Are you
conscious that you've changed | 2:08:56 | 2:09:00 | |
snowboarding? I'm glad I did it and
got the world's first title but I | 2:09:00 | 2:09:08 | |
wish I'd kept the gates closed for
longer because now there is a few | 2:09:08 | 2:09:12 | |
guys who have done it. | 2:09:12 | 2:09:18 | |
guys who have done it. How is the
build-up to this Olympics compared | 2:09:18 | 2:09:20 | |
to the last? I think it's been quite
similar. We are always chasing the | 2:09:20 | 2:09:25 | |
new tricks, trying to up
snowboarding as much as possible so | 2:09:25 | 2:09:31 | |
it is the same goal. The tricks have
moved on a lot since then. A lot of | 2:09:31 | 2:09:35 | |
the guys go to the gym and the
airbags and things like that to | 2:09:35 | 2:09:40 | |
train. You do power Acquah balance
-- power acrobatic balance snow | 2:09:40 | 2:09:49 | |
jump, you mix it up. I mix it up as
much as possible. I was an acrobat | 2:09:49 | 2:09:55 | |
when I was younger and I tried to
bring it into my training now and I | 2:09:55 | 2:09:58 | |
do a lot of kicking up in the air.
It is like doing squats but instead | 2:09:58 | 2:10:05 | |
I'm doing leg pressing a human, so
there is more balanced. I try and do | 2:10:05 | 2:10:11 | |
a lot of gymnastics and
trampolining, in the gym, skating a | 2:10:11 | 2:10:14 | |
bit, and I do some acro to keep
everything going. | 2:10:14 | 2:10:21 | |
What can we expect from you in
Pyeongchang? You can expect me to | 2:10:26 | 2:10:30 | |
try my hardest. That's the answer!
And I will, I'll try my hardest. I | 2:10:30 | 2:10:36 | |
don't like to think about whether I
can get a medal because it is such a | 2:10:36 | 2:10:41 | |
role of the dice on the day. If
everybody falls over, I'll | 2:10:41 | 2:10:45 | |
definitely win but if everybody
lands it makes it a harder game, you | 2:10:45 | 2:10:49 | |
know. How excited are you about the
inclusion of big air? It's epic, two | 2:10:49 | 2:10:55 | |
chances to show off what we can do.
We've always done the big air as | 2:10:55 | 2:11:00 | |
well, it hasn't been sprung on us
and we've got to suddenly learn new | 2:11:00 | 2:11:03 | |
things. I'm glad they've included it
and given us a chance to show what | 2:11:03 | 2:11:08 | |
we can do. Billy had a top ten
finish in Sochi in slopestyle, he's | 2:11:08 | 2:11:15 | |
better event is the big air. With
Bradford's Jamie Nicholls, who was | 2:11:15 | 2:11:20 | |
sixth, they are back for more and we
have another member of the team, | 2:11:20 | 2:11:24 | |
Bedford's Rowan Coultas. Motivated
after watching Jamie Jones claiming | 2:11:24 | 2:11:29 | |
Britain's first ever women Jon Snow
in the women's no style four years | 2:11:29 | 2:11:35 | |
ago -- on snow. Two qualification
runs today with a possible final | 2:11:35 | 2:11:39 | |
looming tomorrow. Phoenix Park is
the most easterly of the Mountain | 2:11:39 | 2:11:44 | |
Cluster venues in the Gangwon
Mountains, the so-called Korean Alps | 2:11:44 | 2:11:50 | |
and it is where most of the
snowboard and freestyle skiing | 2:11:50 | 2:11:53 | |
events are staged. It can be pretty
windy and Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood | 2:11:53 | 2:11:57 | |
are looking at what they are facing.
Welcome to the slopestyle course in | 2:11:57 | 2:12:04 | |
Phoenix Park. There's almost no
natural snowfall in career meaning | 2:12:04 | 2:12:08 | |
the course has been constructive
almost from man-made snow. Because | 2:12:08 | 2:12:13 | |
of that it has incredible
consistency which has enabled the | 2:12:13 | 2:12:15 | |
course designers to create the most
aesthetically pleasing course we've | 2:12:15 | 2:12:19 | |
seen. It looks like it's been made
from marble. There are six different | 2:12:19 | 2:12:27 | |
modules. Let's have a look. The
first three modules are the rails | 2:12:27 | 2:12:34 | |
but they aren't the standard
options, we've got rainbows, boxes, | 2:12:34 | 2:12:41 | |
Hitchings, double kinks. Without
question the most creative course | 2:12:41 | 2:12:45 | |
we've ever seen. Because of that the
judges are going to have a real | 2:12:45 | 2:12:49 | |
headache, so many choices and
options through the course that | 2:12:49 | 2:12:54 | |
cater to every style of rider. All
of these features are massive. | 2:12:54 | 2:13:04 | |
of these features are massive. This
is almost a bonus feature for the | 2:13:04 | 2:13:06 | |
riders, halfway between the rails
and the kickers, the double dip. It | 2:13:06 | 2:13:13 | |
offers the riders something
completely unique but we think the | 2:13:13 | 2:13:16 | |
main purpose is to split them. For
these two, the angle take-offs, jump | 2:13:16 | 2:13:23 | |
number one. It looks like the
kickers have collapsed but they are | 2:13:23 | 2:13:26 | |
built that way. With the standard
straight kicker they offer a | 2:13:26 | 2:13:30 | |
multitude of choices. Then it is
jump number two which from here | 2:13:30 | 2:13:36 | |
resembles the frozen ramparts of an
ice Palace. Finally something we | 2:13:36 | 2:13:43 | |
recognise, two standard kickers on
the last jump. I think it's the best | 2:13:43 | 2:13:46 | |
course ever. Absolutely. It is like
a code that the riders will have two | 2:13:46 | 2:13:52 | |
crack. Interesting to see who can
decipher them. Wouldn't your kids | 2:13:52 | 2:13:57 | |
love a | 2:13:57 | 2:13:57 | |
decipher them. Wouldn't your kids
love a go at that! Double kinks and | 2:13:57 | 2:14:02 | |
rainbow boxes. If someone can make a
fortune with a soft play version | 2:14:02 | 2:14:06 | |
that is perfect for a wet Saturday.
Qualification was made up of two | 2:14:06 | 2:14:11 | |
groups or heats, and in each group
the riders get two runs, these | 2:14:11 | 2:14:15 | |
scores are added together and the
top six in each group will go | 2:14:15 | 2:14:19 | |
through. Billy Morgan was in heat
one. Let's join Tim Warwood and Ed | 2:14:19 | 2:14:23 | |
Leigh. COMMENTATOR: is a lot of
speculation about Sebastien Toutant, | 2:14:23 | 2:14:33 | |
one of the bastions over the last
decade. A very solid rider. It is | 2:14:33 | 2:14:39 | |
about style and this man has it in
the absolute bucketload. Back 180 on | 2:14:39 | 2:14:46 | |
and off, holding that rail very
nicely. Slide 270. | 2:14:46 | 2:14:56 | |
Twist and drag. Beautiful, that was
the butter we were talking about | 2:15:01 | 2:15:04 | |
when you balance on the nose and
slide of the take-off. 1260, really | 2:15:04 | 2:15:11 | |
nice. | 2:15:11 | 2:15:16 | |
nice. Front side, double court,
nearly caught the first 720 of that. | 2:15:17 | 2:15:22 | |
Then with room to spare on the
backside ten at the bottom. Really | 2:15:22 | 2:15:28 | |
nice. Rangefinder for me.
Rangefinder, exactly. Look at this, | 2:15:28 | 2:15:34 | |
beautiful. And again, a completely
different line through the rails | 2:15:34 | 2:15:38 | |
from everybody else. Lovely, just
the composure, it's a good | 2:15:38 | 2:15:44 | |
guideline, if someone can grab all
the way through a trick like that | 2:15:44 | 2:15:47 | |
you know you they are in control.
Nothing too special, low 70s? 78.1, | 2:15:47 | 2:16:00 | |
very impressive. That is the first
indicator we have seen that the | 2:16:00 | 2:16:04 | |
judges are looking for clean lines.
Here we go. Take a breath, this will | 2:16:04 | 2:16:11 | |
be the benchmark, smiles all round,
Marcus Kleveland, burst onto the | 2:16:11 | 2:16:18 | |
scene at 11 or 12. 13, there were
rumours this kid could do doubles at | 2:16:18 | 2:16:23 | |
11 but he was one of the first to do
a triple 13. Switched to 70 on, 270 | 2:16:23 | 2:16:31 | |
off. A lot of speed and the kink
rail. Then a gap, 270. Another | 2:16:31 | 2:16:39 | |
different line here. Huge gap, lip
side to fake it and I think that | 2:16:39 | 2:16:43 | |
might have been a little mistake,
but this kid can roll with the | 2:16:43 | 2:16:46 | |
punches, switch into the first of
these jumps, huge switchback, wow! | 2:16:46 | 2:16:52 | |
How did he stop that rotation?
Switch 1260. This is the Marcus we | 2:16:52 | 2:16:59 | |
know. Bottom jumper. 1442 finish. He
had so much time to spare, finished | 2:16:59 | 2:17:14 | |
with four foot in the air. We have a
new leader in heat one of the men's | 2:17:14 | 2:17:25 | |
qualifiers in slopestyle. It is
about getting that out of the way, | 2:17:25 | 2:17:28 | |
calming your Olympic nerves, getting
the score on the board. He has done | 2:17:28 | 2:17:32 | |
it in emphatic style. Carlos
Garcia-Knight, Kiwi out of | 2:17:32 | 2:17:42 | |
Christchurch in New Zealand. Switch
up on the rails. Looked like he lost | 2:17:42 | 2:17:48 | |
a bit of control them through the
kink on that, nice, technical, the | 2:17:48 | 2:17:52 | |
judges will like to see that, taking
on a lot more of that rail. Then | 2:17:52 | 2:17:59 | |
flip, just leaving a hand behind.
540 of the track. So front side with | 2:17:59 | 2:18:11 | |
the roast beef grab through the legs
into a backside. Lovely 1260! This | 2:18:11 | 2:18:17 | |
is looking good, this is looking
really good. Switch backside, 1260, | 2:18:17 | 2:18:23 | |
three and a half rotations, he's
happy with that, and so he should | 2:18:23 | 2:18:27 | |
be. What a solid run. We saw him do
that in practice yesterday, and it's | 2:18:27 | 2:18:33 | |
a very, very solid run, isn't it?
Behind Marcus Kleveland, the best we | 2:18:33 | 2:18:42 | |
have seen so far. Really solid run.
80.1, you are correct. Moves into | 2:18:42 | 2:18:54 | |
second place just behind Marcus
Kleveland. Which Roisland will we | 2:18:54 | 2:19:10 | |
see, Eddie? I think the ones we
love, the consistent ones. | 2:19:10 | 2:19:16 | |
Disappointing for the Norwegian, the
pressure on a little for all these | 2:19:16 | 2:19:18 | |
guys. With Marcus Kleveland doing so
well, he is absorbing a lot of the | 2:19:18 | 2:19:27 | |
expectation for them. Had weight
backside to 70, so taking off and | 2:19:27 | 2:19:32 | |
spinning over the rail -- had weight
backside 270. Nice, cheeky frontside | 2:19:32 | 2:19:41 | |
five, clean over it. He used it as a
straight kicker, didn't he? Tricky | 2:19:41 | 2:19:46 | |
one there. Well held, looking good
for Roisland. Backside spin. Really | 2:19:46 | 2:19:55 | |
nice, the 1080 puts it down. Now was
the sun comes out into this bottom | 2:19:55 | 2:20:00 | |
jump for him, big 1440, hand patches
the air, you called it, -- punches | 2:20:00 | 2:20:07 | |
the air, we saw the consistent
Roisland there. There are a couple | 2:20:07 | 2:20:10 | |
of moments where you thought it
might not happen for him, he was sat | 2:20:10 | 2:20:13 | |
on the back a tiny bit. Melon
grabbed there. Front hand on the | 2:20:13 | 2:20:18 | |
heel edge of the snowboard between
the legs. A nice shot of his pants | 2:20:18 | 2:20:23 | |
there! Free of charge. Waiting for
the judges to pick this apart. 76.5, | 2:20:23 | 2:20:30 | |
so he slides in just | 2:20:30 | 2:20:36 | |
so he slides in just behind Toutant
at the moment. The Korean | 2:20:38 | 2:20:45 | |
snowboarder will not start, and
neither | 2:20:45 | 2:20:52 | |
neither will Van Der Velden, so
Nichols. Lookout EC he made that | 2:20:52 | 2:21:01 | |
look. Very nice. | 2:21:01 | 2:21:06 | |
look. Very nice. 180 on, 360,
backside seven off the track, took | 2:21:06 | 2:21:08 | |
it for speed. Best rail section we
have seen so far. Frontside ten. His | 2:21:08 | 2:21:17 | |
adrenaline will be peaking at the
moment. Backside 1260. Looking good | 2:21:17 | 2:21:22 | |
from Jamie Nicholls. Just to cap
ten. Very nice. Very smart. Score on | 2:21:22 | 2:21:31 | |
the board, that's what we've said.
We'll see a really nice 720 grab. | 2:21:31 | 2:21:40 | |
What is beautiful in a lot of these
things is is adjusting them, he is | 2:21:40 | 2:21:45 | |
changing the access to the rotation,
really confident. 1260, slight hand | 2:21:45 | 2:21:53 | |
drag for him there. Those rails up
top with the best we have seen so | 2:21:53 | 2:21:58 | |
far. 71.5 six. That is a lot lower
than I thought we were going to see. | 2:21:58 | 2:22:05 | |
So the first runs here at men's
slopestyle qualification. No | 2:22:05 | 2:22:11 | |
surprises to see Marcus Kleveland in
first. | 2:22:11 | 2:22:21 | |
first. Very little between Jamie
Nicholls and Chris Corning. | 2:22:21 | 2:22:25 | |
Interesting second run here, not
least because we would see Marcus | 2:22:25 | 2:22:30 | |
Kleveland throw down a more
adventurous run than we saw in run | 2:22:30 | 2:22:33 | |
one. Bergrem, not one of the riders
currently sat in 11th who has the | 2:22:33 | 2:22:40 | |
potential to blast into the top six
-- one of the riders. He felt on the | 2:22:40 | 2:22:45 | |
third jump so he needs to clean up
here. Intentionally coming off the | 2:22:45 | 2:22:51 | |
rainbow rail early so he can find
the transition then get back onto | 2:22:51 | 2:22:56 | |
the rail. Lovely intensity. Packed
in the tricks there. Nice rail | 2:22:56 | 2:23:03 | |
section so far. 180 on, 360 off.
Stopped it. He almost overcook that | 2:23:03 | 2:23:10 | |
but he stopped it, so frontside...
1080. He did so well to get around | 2:23:10 | 2:23:17 | |
there. But it's not looking
intentional at the moment, looks | 2:23:17 | 2:23:20 | |
like he is surviving rather than...
1216 hour switching to the spot and | 2:23:20 | 2:23:27 | |
jump, 1262 cloudburst. Three and a
half rotations. He's put it down, | 2:23:27 | 2:23:37 | |
it's clean, but I don't know if it
is clean enough. For me there was | 2:23:37 | 2:23:42 | |
just a little, not hesitation, but
he didn't look comfortable and in | 2:23:42 | 2:23:45 | |
control through the last 360. Is
summed it up perfectly when you said | 2:23:45 | 2:23:50 | |
that run didn't look intentional. It
looked like he was just in for the | 2:23:50 | 2:23:55 | |
ride. From the track, that
midpoint... Look at that, that's | 2:23:55 | 2:24:00 | |
cost him. The judges want to see the
boards landing perfect, they will | 2:24:00 | 2:24:04 | |
get their protractor is out and be
able to spot the 90 degrees | 2:24:04 | 2:24:08 | |
measurement. So another one of the
big hitters jumped up into fifth. | 2:24:08 | 2:24:14 | |
Does he remain a fifth? Wow, that I
didn't see, that was not better than | 2:24:14 | 2:24:20 | |
Jamie Nicholls's first run. Your
current leader, Marcus Kleveland. | 2:24:20 | 2:24:27 | |
This kid is ice cold, his
preparation for Korea has been | 2:24:27 | 2:24:30 | |
nothing short of breathtaking. He
said had earlier on, he entered four | 2:24:30 | 2:24:37 | |
contest this year, four slopestyles,
one big air, and won all three | 2:24:37 | 2:24:41 | |
slopestyles. And how about that,
completely different rail line | 2:24:41 | 2:24:45 | |
through the top section, that big
gap, little nose but, 540 off, | 2:24:45 | 2:24:52 | |
switching to the first of these
angled jumps, speed here... | 2:24:52 | 2:24:58 | |
Alley-oop against the run of that
angle. I quite like the fact that he | 2:24:58 | 2:25:06 | |
has fallen over. It means his human.
LAUGHTER | 2:25:06 | 2:25:13 | |
has fallen over. It means his human.
LAUGHTER. Absolutely ridiculous! | 2:25:13 | 2:25:18 | |
Here it is, the angle of that kick
firing him to the left and he is | 2:25:18 | 2:25:22 | |
rotating to the right. That's called
an alley-oop, you rotate against the | 2:25:22 | 2:25:26 | |
transition. You could just tell on
the run-in that he didn't have | 2:25:26 | 2:25:33 | |
enough speed for this. The body
formed their as is tuxes head | 2:25:33 | 2:25:37 | |
underneath into that last corkscrew
-- tuxes head in. I don't see many | 2:25:37 | 2:25:44 | |
people upsetting 83.7 one. | 2:25:44 | 2:25:53 | |
people upsetting 83.7 one. Callas
Garcia-Knight currently in second | 2:25:54 | 2:25:55 | |
place and I think he has room for
improvement. Does he try and improve | 2:25:55 | 2:26:01 | |
on that run, try to shoot across the
bow of Marcus Kleveland here? He had | 2:26:01 | 2:26:07 | |
to show the news coming, put
pressure on him. Love the switch up, | 2:26:07 | 2:26:12 | |
don't we? We love it. And then
through the king, you see him | 2:26:12 | 2:26:19 | |
landing in the middle of that. It
doesn't look pretty because it is | 2:26:19 | 2:26:23 | |
not flowing but it is so technical
to keep your edges clean and get | 2:26:23 | 2:26:27 | |
them through the kinks and the
metal. Really nice. Really squaring | 2:26:27 | 2:26:34 | |
that off, isn't he? Double Cork 1080
from him, put it down really nice. | 2:26:34 | 2:26:42 | |
Oh, little bit short. There is no
one else who does those like that, | 2:26:42 | 2:26:49 | |
the way he rolls over the top of it.
He grabs tail on it, doesn't he, and | 2:26:49 | 2:26:55 | |
really winds it over. Then landing
that deep potentially cost him, | 2:26:55 | 2:26:59 | |
there he is, rolling over the top.
What will the judges say here? It is | 2:26:59 | 2:27:07 | |
irrelevant, to be honest. He doesn't
care, he has an 80 in the bag. | 2:27:07 | 2:27:15 | |
Settled yourselves, Jamie Nicholls
currently in seventh, just outside | 2:27:15 | 2:27:19 | |
the top six qualifying spot. He
needs this run. Hamish McKnight | 2:27:19 | 2:27:25 | |
seeing him off there, head coach of
the British team. The boy from | 2:27:25 | 2:27:30 | |
Bradford coming into this first
jump. Switch 180, 360 off, missed | 2:27:30 | 2:27:37 | |
the grab on that. Backside 270, 270
off. Making it look so easy. A | 2:27:37 | 2:27:45 | |
difficult trip, 180 on, 360 off,
into the saddle. Muscle memory | 2:27:45 | 2:27:54 | |
starting to kick him now for Jamie
Nicholls as he comes into the | 2:27:54 | 2:27:57 | |
kickers. Slight 1080, needs to put
this down here. Massive. O... Jamie! | 2:27:57 | 2:28:09 | |
It was huge! He saw everyone else
coming up short on baton Centre, | 2:28:09 | 2:28:15 | |
didn't he? He really did. I will
dwell on this point here because we | 2:28:15 | 2:28:20 | |
will not get another chance having
not seen him make it. I genuinely | 2:28:20 | 2:28:24 | |
think he has been robbed here. I
think he has as well. Like-for-like | 2:28:24 | 2:28:37 | |
you have Bergrem in sixth place who
made a massive mistake, Jamie | 2:28:37 | 2:28:42 | |
Nicholls had one small... Grabbed
his hands. I don't think the two | 2:28:42 | 2:28:49 | |
matchup, I really don't. Absolutely
massive. Should have landed there, | 2:28:49 | 2:28:57 | |
and he still gone. So Jamie's
Olympic slopestyle done and dusted. | 2:28:57 | 2:29:06 | |
Lletget confirmation of the result.
Top six will qualify directly for | 2:29:07 | 2:29:11 | |
the finals. -- Lletget confirmation. | 2:29:11 | 2:29:19 | |
Painfully close for Jamie Nicholls
and Chris Corning. | 2:29:23 | 2:29:27 | |
STUDIO: Sadly no | 2:29:29 | 2:29:30 | |
STUDIO: Sadly no place in the final
four Billy Morgan. Once again, | 2:29:30 | 2:29:34 | |
arguably his biggest chance will
come in the new event, big air, two | 2:29:34 | 2:29:38 | |
weeks today on day 15 but let's get
into the second heat, a big moment | 2:29:38 | 2:29:43 | |
for both Jamie and Rowan Coultas. | 2:29:43 | 2:29:55 | |
Is one of the most experienced
Norwegian riders, in his third | 2:30:00 | 2:30:04 | |
Olympics, the defending silver
medallist, riding the pipe in | 2:30:04 | 2:30:10 | |
Vancouver and then he did slopestyle
and got the Silver Medal in Sochi. | 2:30:10 | 2:30:14 | |
Yeah. One of the most stylish and
consistent and measured riders, | 2:30:14 | 2:30:19 | |
beautiful to watch. That lovely lip
slide and he came off the rail early | 2:30:19 | 2:30:26 | |
which people have been thinking is a
mistake. How easy is that? That | 2:30:26 | 2:30:32 | |
flow, very similar to Marcus
Cleveland. Yes, the switch is worth | 2:30:32 | 2:30:35 | |
noting. That's 270 gap. We have been
told that the saddle isn't scoring | 2:30:35 | 2:30:48 | |
as high, it is a setup for these
jumps and that's a perfect front | 2:30:48 | 2:30:52 | |
side 1080. | 2:30:52 | 2:30:59 | |
side 1080. Backside 1260, was it?
The control to slow that down. | 2:30:59 | 2:31:02 | |
Absolutely beautiful. I think we
might have seen the highest score of | 2:31:02 | 2:31:08 | |
the day. The posy struck when he
landed made it that like he was | 2:31:08 | 2:31:14 | |
modelling for a catalogue shoot.
Phenomenal control. This is the | 2:31:14 | 2:31:28 | |
best of Staale Sandbech we are
seeing. We wondered if Chris Corning | 2:31:30 | 2:31:33 | |
suffered by going first in the last
round. The most interesting man in | 2:31:33 | 2:31:39 | |
preparation here, two career ending
injury is that he has come back from | 2:31:39 | 2:31:43 | |
and here he is at the Olympic final.
For him, relatively safe through the | 2:31:43 | 2:31:48 | |
rail section, that back 270, and a
big gap to the down bar. He landed | 2:31:48 | 2:31:56 | |
it beautifully, absolutely square
between his bindings. Switch | 2:31:56 | 2:32:01 | |
backside, 1260. He make it look like
1080. It snaps on the landing, | 2:32:01 | 2:32:08 | |
didn't it? Front side into the cork,
going up side down. The triple. | 2:32:08 | 2:32:19 | |
Boom, the backside triple cork, he
absolutely nailed it. He's the most | 2:32:19 | 2:32:26 | |
determined and focused competitor
you will ever see. Look at the | 2:32:26 | 2:32:31 | |
landing, the triple cork backside
1440. A knowing smile there from | 2:32:31 | 2:32:38 | |
Mark McMorris. Next we have Seppi
Smits, the Belgian, 26-year-old, | 2:32:38 | 2:32:46 | |
goofy footed. Learning in the snow
dome and perfecting his riding at | 2:32:46 | 2:32:55 | |
the park. Lovely style, very
languid. Switch backside 270 gap on | 2:32:55 | 2:33:04 | |
the top rail. Switch backside. No
messing around. | 2:33:04 | 2:33:16 | |
messing around. Frontside 540,
setting up now for the switch into | 2:33:16 | 2:33:19 | |
the first of the three jumps. Switch
backside 1080. One of the first men | 2:33:19 | 2:33:25 | |
to put all of those 1080s in four
directions. 1260, well held. Now, | 2:33:25 | 2:33:32 | |
the jump. | 2:33:32 | 2:33:38 | |
the jump. Backside 1260, to finish.
Fascinating to see what he gets the | 2:33:38 | 2:33:41 | |
score. I had a chat after the first
heat with the judges to qualify -- | 2:33:41 | 2:33:50 | |
to find out what they are looking
for. The right-hand side of the | 2:33:50 | 2:33:55 | |
rails, where Chris Corning and Jamie
Nicholls went, is the easy side. | 2:33:55 | 2:34:00 | |
Seppi Smits going down the middle.
78.36. This kid is the real deal, | 2:34:00 | 2:34:11 | |
Redmond Gerard from Colorado. Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, one of seven | 2:34:11 | 2:34:16 | |
kids, he's the sixth. They moved to
Denver and he's grown up | 2:34:16 | 2:34:20 | |
snowboarding. Going with a very
similar line to Jamie Nicholls. Oh, | 2:34:20 | 2:34:28 | |
nice, the first person we've seen up
and over the goalpost. 50-50, | 2:34:28 | 2:34:32 | |
broadside through the double kink.
So hard to stay on the rails there. | 2:34:32 | 2:34:38 | |
The melon grab. He needs to pick up
the speed, he really does. He is | 2:34:38 | 2:34:45 | |
slight and he might struggle with
speed on the jumps. Yes, it's purely | 2:34:45 | 2:34:49 | |
a case of inertia for Red. Yeah. I
think it's 900 there. Well held. | 2:34:49 | 2:34:59 | |
Because your trajectory coming into
the landing, you are dropping much | 2:34:59 | 2:35:02 | |
faster. Triple cork 1440! How did he
get it around? There was no room, I | 2:35:02 | 2:35:10 | |
thought he'd land on his head! Let's
see how close his head is on the | 2:35:10 | 2:35:15 | |
second one. He landed with his legs
bent, his head between his legs. | 2:35:15 | 2:35:23 | |
82.55, interesting that the judges
normally like seeing a bit more | 2:35:23 | 2:35:26 | |
amplitude and space on the big
tricks. The world's best Biggar | 2:35:26 | 2:35:32 | |
rider, he's been focusing on that
for a while and he hasn't been | 2:35:32 | 2:35:35 | |
beaten by any of the big guns in a
year. -- best Biggar rider. His | 2:35:35 | 2:35:41 | |
slopestyle has suffered as a result.
The weakest part of his game, | 2:35:41 | 2:35:46 | |
interesting to see how he fares. It
really will come on the first rail | 2:35:46 | 2:35:51 | |
he missed half of this section.
Backside 270, the kink rail, this is | 2:35:51 | 2:35:59 | |
similar to Jamie Nicholls. Backside
rodeo knows grab. We saw the full | 2:35:59 | 2:36:07 | |
extent of his wingspan. Big double
cork 1260. Second jump. Frontside | 2:36:07 | 2:36:16 | |
1080. Now into the jump, what can he
do? Winding up hard. Triple cork | 2:36:16 | 2:36:25 | |
1440, nearly putting it to the
knuckle. And how he held on. Wow. A | 2:36:25 | 2:36:31 | |
few people winding up into the big
spins have struggled to find the | 2:36:31 | 2:36:35 | |
distance. It's like the pop you need
for the 1440 is taking away from the | 2:36:35 | 2:36:40 | |
distance. 83.45, that's enough for
second place from Max Parrot. | 2:36:40 | 2:36:50 | |
Coultas will be looking to enjoy his
first Olympics. No pressure on the | 2:36:52 | 2:36:57 | |
young man. Nobody's got... He's got
a love of speed and style, Rowan. | 2:36:57 | 2:37:04 | |
He's here on merit -- he's got a lot
of speed. We saw in his first league | 2:37:04 | 2:37:11 | |
contest, he went out and enjoyed
himself. The samurai sword grab he | 2:37:11 | 2:37:17 | |
has on his 1260 melon, a thing of
beauty. Taking a very funky line in, | 2:37:17 | 2:37:23 | |
he'll lose a lot of speed. Yeah.
Corr! A weird line into that jump | 2:37:23 | 2:37:32 | |
and he had to cut very hard to get
it off. He'll be relying on his | 2:37:32 | 2:37:37 | |
second run. I think that will have
done his nerves good. Back to back | 2:37:37 | 2:37:42 | |
at the Brits. So, Billy Morgan. No
longer sporting that incredible | 2:37:42 | 2:37:48 | |
moustache you see on his profile
picture. Coming straight down the | 2:37:48 | 2:37:50 | |
middle. 270 on, 270 off. Backside
270. A huge gap. Look at the style. | 2:37:50 | 2:38:04 | |
Cheeky little Millet flip over the
A-frame. Backside rodeo. Billy cited | 2:38:04 | 2:38:13 | |
that speed was an issue into the
jumps. What has he got? Triple cork. | 2:38:13 | 2:38:19 | |
Ooh, well held, just. Oh, and he
knew, didn't he? Didn't have enough | 2:38:19 | 2:38:26 | |
speed. Most of the time... He's
warming up. Sending the triple is | 2:38:26 | 2:38:34 | |
very deep there. He made that look
so easy, the triple. It is tucked | 2:38:34 | 2:38:41 | |
and cook from Billy on this one. He
has to commit here. Opening up a bit | 2:38:41 | 2:38:46 | |
early. Sixth place with a straight
air and a mistake on the first jump. | 2:38:46 | 2:38:53 | |
The two Canadians out in France,
Mark McMorris and Max Parrot. -- out | 2:38:53 | 2:38:59 | |
in front. Mark McMorris, first-place
qualifier at the moment. The most | 2:38:59 | 2:39:09 | |
dominant rider of the last eight
years, in slopestyle. He is the | 2:39:09 | 2:39:14 | |
consummate rider, isn't he? Yeah,
every time he lands, you know? | 2:39:14 | 2:39:22 | |
That's why he's in first place right
now. 270. Backside 360, locking in | 2:39:22 | 2:39:31 | |
the Grange. Landing forward slide
you've got a foot each way -- in the | 2:39:31 | 2:39:40 | |
grind. 50-50. My goodness. Backside
1260, so perfect. The landing was | 2:39:40 | 2:39:47 | |
like laying your head down on a
pillow. Look how easy the landings | 2:39:47 | 2:39:51 | |
are. The triple, yes, easy! The
ground came up to meet him, he | 2:39:51 | 2:39:59 | |
didn't have to do a thing, he just
waited for the Earth to rise with | 2:39:59 | 2:40:02 | |
his feet. Ending in Sochi in 2014
with a broken rib and he still made | 2:40:02 | 2:40:08 | |
it into the bronze medal position.
He's coming here for gold, make no | 2:40:08 | 2:40:12 | |
mistake. 86.83, the highest score
we've seen today and no surprise. | 2:40:12 | 2:40:20 | |
Redmond Gerard is the first really
consistent American slopestyle | 2:40:20 | 2:40:23 | |
rider. | 2:40:23 | 2:40:28 | |
rider. This is the best bit of his
run. | 2:40:30 | 2:40:36 | |
run. Beautiful frontside air,
catching the transition. So | 2:40:36 | 2:40:40 | |
difficult, he wouldn't have been
able to see the landing. He's coming | 2:40:40 | 2:40:42 | |
over blind. Completely blind. Oh,
hello! That was lovely. It wasn't | 2:40:42 | 2:40:49 | |
clean last time, it's brilliant
seeing that. Polished. | 2:40:49 | 2:40:57 | |
seeing that. Polished. Massive, well
held. Going very wide, and now the | 2:40:57 | 2:41:01 | |
big double crippler that he does.
Way better. Yeah, much cleaner. He | 2:41:01 | 2:41:11 | |
knew it. Such a shame.
Disappointment for Redmond Gerard. | 2:41:11 | 2:41:18 | |
We talked about it, his weight. He
doesn't have the mass to drive him | 2:41:18 | 2:41:22 | |
over the kickers. Max Parrot,
currently in second place. A man who | 2:41:22 | 2:41:34 | |
is known as a big air rider.
Struggling on the rails. We thought | 2:41:34 | 2:41:39 | |
he would struggle on the enormous
rail setup but he's proving them | 2:41:39 | 2:41:45 | |
wrong. That's so hard. Lipsyte 's
270 and the risk of catching the | 2:41:45 | 2:41:51 | |
tail of your snowboard with it. He
wants to qualify first. Really? He | 2:41:51 | 2:41:56 | |
differently wants to. He has a lot
of work to do to overhaul Mark | 2:41:56 | 2:42:01 | |
McMorris. Backside rodeo knows grab,
I really like that trick. A really | 2:42:01 | 2:42:09 | |
weird line. He can go for the front
triple. Yeah I've been thinking | 2:42:09 | 2:42:13 | |
that. He's going to go big here,
isn't he. Something big here. | 2:42:13 | 2:42:21 | |
Backside triple. Playing it safe.
Playing it safe! When you're talking | 2:42:21 | 2:42:30 | |
about Max Parrot, with the cap 1800
on his back, yes, he's playing it | 2:42:30 | 2:42:37 | |
safe. All wrong. They of .3 -- 87
point three. Roland Coultas. Come | 2:42:37 | 2:42:50 | |
on, Rowan. All the elements are
there. A beautiful run. That's nice. | 2:42:50 | 2:43:04 | |
Fast 270. | 2:43:04 | 2:43:10 | |
Fast 270. The gap board slide 270,
perhaps coming off a bit early. This | 2:43:10 | 2:43:18 | |
is where it went wrong last time.
Oh, no, he has gone again. It wasn't | 2:43:18 | 2:43:24 | |
right for him, whatever was up with
the binding is putting him off | 2:43:24 | 2:43:28 | |
because the rails weren't as clean
as he wanted them either. | 2:43:28 | 2:43:31 | |
Disappointing for Coultas. Limps in.
Billy Morgan. That picture! | 2:43:31 | 2:43:38 | |
Fantastic moustache. Billy had the
ingredients in the first run. He | 2:43:38 | 2:43:45 | |
made it to the finals, is is a
question of putting it to the final. | 2:43:45 | 2:43:51 | |
Very clean, nice and fast through
the top section. He got onto the | 2:43:51 | 2:43:58 | |
double kink very nicely there. He
made sure he had plenty of the rail | 2:43:58 | 2:44:05 | |
and he just his Speedwell. | 2:44:05 | 2:44:12 | |
and he just his Speedwell. He had to
open up, he knew he wasn't going to | 2:44:12 | 2:44:14 | |
get it around. Such are his keen
senses there, he knew. Oh, Billy! | 2:44:14 | 2:44:23 | |
And the disappointment tells. Yeah,
a shameful Billy Morgan. I love that | 2:44:23 | 2:44:31 | |
grab. Really nice double ground. He
had the spatial awareness to open up | 2:44:31 | 2:44:35 | |
on the triple. If he had committed
it could be a different scene. | 2:44:35 | 2:44:41 | |
Confirmation of the result in
qualification heats two. | 2:44:41 | 2:44:50 | |
into the second heat, a big moment
for both Jamie and Rowan Coultas. | 2:44:54 | 2:44:57 | |
Do you feel your first score should
have gone higher than what it did? I | 2:44:57 | 2:45:02 | |
was gutted, I was genuinely gutted.
I felt I was clean through the | 2:45:02 | 2:45:08 | |
rails, I was doing something
different from everyone else on the | 2:45:08 | 2:45:11 | |
house thing in the third section,
and 71, I wasn't happy with. We | 2:45:11 | 2:45:17 | |
wondered why it was that little bit
lower. I don't understand, but | 2:45:17 | 2:45:21 | |
that's how it goes sometimes in
competitions, just today obviously | 2:45:21 | 2:45:25 | |
wasn't my day. I am happy anyway,
it's just how it goes in | 2:45:25 | 2:45:29 | |
competitions, I'm just glad I'm in
one piece. Not exactly according to | 2:45:29 | 2:45:34 | |
plan. First round I thought I was
coming into fast and then I scrub | 2:45:34 | 2:45:39 | |
too much on the second round I
didn't do it hard enough. Nice to | 2:45:39 | 2:45:43 | |
have written an Olympic course?
Amazing to be here and write the | 2:45:43 | 2:45:48 | |
actual course but still bummed.
Billy Morgan, you put that first run | 2:45:48 | 2:45:52 | |
down almost down the straight out
through the middle but that put you | 2:45:52 | 2:45:57 | |
in sixth, what about make you feel
into the second run? I was so close | 2:45:57 | 2:46:01 | |
on that one, had I landed that
instead of the small scrub I | 2:46:01 | 2:46:05 | |
probably would have got through and
I felt that was what I was | 2:46:05 | 2:46:08 | |
struggling with, getting that close
was a pain. Was the speed problem | 2:46:08 | 2:46:12 | |
the whole day? Basically if there
was a headwind I knew I would be | 2:46:12 | 2:46:17 | |
slow going into that jump and on the
second rail with the gap down I felt | 2:46:17 | 2:46:22 | |
headwind there and I was like, oh
no, and all I could think about was | 2:46:22 | 2:46:25 | |
the rest so when I came out I pinned
it as hard as I could but I was too | 2:46:25 | 2:46:31 | |
slow, then again, I did a double, I
might as well crack on, but again, | 2:46:31 | 2:46:38 | |
headwind, there it is. STUDIO:
Disappointment for the British trio, | 2:46:38 | 2:46:42 | |
no British involvement in that
final. It is the Canadians in pole | 2:46:42 | 2:46:46 | |
position, Parrot and McMorris, AKA a
crib, he has broken his ribs so | 2:46:46 | 2:46:51 | |
often that's what they call him. --
Mack rib. That begins 1am UK time. | 2:46:51 | 2:46:59 | |
Jim Jones asking the question --
Jenny Jones, she of the bronze medal | 2:46:59 | 2:47:06 | |
four years ago. Ice hockey hits the
headline whenever there is the | 2:47:06 | 2:47:10 | |
latest grudge match between the
Canadian women and American women | 2:47:10 | 2:47:12 | |
usually in the final but this time
it is a unified Korean team making a | 2:47:12 | 2:47:17 | |
lot of headlines and taking an awful
lot of attention, and there was a | 2:47:17 | 2:47:22 | |
hugely significant morning this
morning for the whole Korean | 2:47:22 | 2:47:25 | |
peninsula, technically a war of
course, these two countries since | 2:47:25 | 2:47:29 | |
the 1950s because they unified team
took to the ice, and here they come | 2:47:29 | 2:47:34 | |
to face the appropriately and
famously neutral Swiss. The Korean | 2:47:34 | 2:47:38 | |
women have played one warm up game
against the Swedes but this was a | 2:47:38 | 2:47:42 | |
real today, and a massive moment not
just for geopolitics but members of | 2:47:42 | 2:47:46 | |
that team. | 2:47:46 | 2:47:53 | |
COMMENTATOR: Chance to skate into a
bit of space as well. Switzerland | 2:47:55 | 2:48:01 | |
able to snuff it out. And the way we
go. They will be a chance. Shot on | 2:48:01 | 2:48:07 | |
goal, and the opener of the
tournament comes for Moller, as | 2:48:07 | 2:48:12 | |
shorthand, a snapshot with just too
much power. Their ends. Brilliant. | 2:48:12 | 2:48:22 | |
Miller gets a second. Cruise
control. | 2:48:22 | 2:48:32 | |
Nice pass, this is beautiful, from
the Swiss, N, a hat-trick in her | 2:48:32 | 2:48:43 | |
first match, and that is a great
beauty. Here is Muller. Nice little | 2:48:43 | 2:48:50 | |
interception that goes on the board.
Throws this one back out in front, | 2:48:50 | 2:48:54 | |
comes down to Muller, everything
according to her right now. STUDIO: | 2:48:54 | 2:49:00 | |
Has another chance and scores. Sinn
could do nothing about it. Four | 2:49:00 | 2:49:05 | |
goals and an 4-0 lead. Korea needs
to get a few more shots out of | 2:49:05 | 2:49:14 | |
Switzerland. Another chance and
another goal, what a feed that was. | 2:49:14 | 2:49:25 | |
High fives all around. A 5-star
performance through just 22 minutes. | 2:49:25 | 2:49:33 | |
Now it is 5-0 you do get the sense
that Switzerland have put their foot | 2:49:33 | 2:49:38 | |
off the gas, maybe with the
exception of fee be Stanz always | 2:49:38 | 2:49:47 | |
moving her feet. Stanz scores, but
is six, Stanz scratching around all | 2:49:47 | 2:49:53 | |
over the place looking for
something. | 2:49:53 | 2:49:59 | |
something. So a five on four
advantage for the Swiss, as the shot | 2:49:59 | 2:50:02 | |
comes in, I don't know of that
deflated in front but it was on | 2:50:02 | 2:50:11 | |
point from Stalder, a rocket inside
the blue line and that is number | 2:50:11 | 2:50:15 | |
seven. The power play to -- took
moments and Stalder enjoying it. | 2:50:15 | 2:50:24 | |
Here is Muller. Great pass, Stalder
on goal looking for a second, | 2:50:24 | 2:50:30 | |
Stalder... Verities. Eighth of the
game. Muller from scorer to | 2:50:30 | 2:50:38 | |
provider, Switzerland 8-0. It is
those little things that make | 2:50:38 | 2:50:42 | |
terrific hockey players, watch
Muller, slight hesitation before she | 2:50:42 | 2:50:46 | |
passes it, opens up a lane for
Stalder cougars had to the net. A | 2:50:46 | 2:50:51 | |
terrific power move, backhand to
forehands, past the outstretched | 2:50:51 | 2:50:56 | |
Shin. Opening game for the hosts is
over, it ends in defeat, a heavy one | 2:50:56 | 2:51:01 | |
at that, to a very exciting Swiss
side. What a day for Korea, what a | 2:51:01 | 2:51:10 | |
day for Switzerland, and the Swiss
looked like they could be one of the | 2:51:10 | 2:51:14 | |
teams to watch as this tournament
goes on. | 2:51:14 | 2:51:19 | |
STUDIO: And | 2:51:19 | 2:51:20 | |
STUDIO: And after all the big
build-up, a walloping for the Korean | 2:51:20 | 2:51:24 | |
team, but they have other chances
because these are the standings in | 2:51:24 | 2:51:28 | |
group B. Interesting that at the
women's ice hockey there are two | 2:51:28 | 2:51:33 | |
groups, group a features the top
four seeds who will all progress in | 2:51:33 | 2:51:37 | |
the competition but here in group B
it is scrapped because only the top | 2:51:37 | 2:51:41 | |
two will make it through the
quarterfinals, and for Switzerland | 2:51:41 | 2:51:44 | |
who took the bronze in Sochi,
incidentally, Muller was only 15 | 2:51:44 | 2:51:50 | |
when she scored their winner to take
the bronze, and she is back older | 2:51:50 | 2:51:54 | |
and wiser with four goals to her
credit in that match. Now, wind | 2:51:54 | 2:52:02 | |
affected the ski jumping, as you
might have seen earlier, in fact the | 2:52:02 | 2:52:05 | |
affected the ski jumping, as you
might have seen earlier, in fact the | 2:52:05 | 2:52:06 | |
men's normal hill went from day one
in today two, and it was all very, | 2:52:06 | 2:52:11 | |
very cold as well, with a terrible
wind chill factor, and it was | 2:52:11 | 2:52:15 | |
slightly comical at times, however,
no one is smiling about the | 2:52:15 | 2:52:20 | |
prospects for one of the main
marquee events here in the Winter | 2:52:20 | 2:52:22 | |
Olympics because it is the men's
downhill, scheduled to go ahead at | 2:52:22 | 2:52:27 | |
2am in Great Britain, however, wind
conditions forecast to be pretty | 2:52:27 | 2:52:34 | |
difficult. No matter what they face
on the jumps on course, we can give | 2:52:34 | 2:52:37 | |
you a picture of the course. Graham
Bell used to give them a run for his | 2:52:37 | 2:52:41 | |
money when he was in his pomp,
five-time downhill of course, and | 2:52:41 | 2:52:46 | |
this time he is tackling with no
poles camera. | 2:52:46 | 2:52:51 | |
Let's go and have a look at this
men's Olympic downhill. The | 2:52:51 | 2:52:56 | |
beautiful view from the top, but
this is what the racers have to | 2:52:56 | 2:53:00 | |
focus on. It starts pretty much
straightaway because you come around | 2:53:00 | 2:53:07 | |
this right footed turn and dived
down onto this | 2:53:07 | 2:53:14 | |
down onto this pumping... Really
important to carry the speed over | 2:53:14 | 2:53:19 | |
the rollers. You have to really let
it fly there, punching the first | 2:53:19 | 2:53:23 | |
one, this is the jump, over it and
want of a roller-coaster section. | 2:53:23 | 2:53:31 | |
Safe as part of the course here,
tunnels underneath the track, then | 2:53:31 | 2:53:36 | |
you have to absorb the rollers.
Coming up to the second jump now, | 2:53:36 | 2:53:43 | |
Dragon Claw, straight up of their
and heading down towards the Forest | 2:53:43 | 2:53:48 | |
road. This turn here is crucial, and
it brings you from the steep onto | 2:53:48 | 2:53:57 | |
the flat. It's the third jump, over
it, heading towards the Blue Dragon | 2:53:57 | 2:54:12 | |
Valley. Really important to keep the
speed going as you go into this | 2:54:12 | 2:54:17 | |
almost like a half pipe section on
the course, just rolling from edge | 2:54:17 | 2:54:23 | |
to edge, coming out of the Blue
Dragon Valley over the little | 2:54:23 | 2:54:29 | |
roller... Heading towards the Magic
Tree, verities to the left of the | 2:54:29 | 2:54:36 | |
course, inside to the finish, onto
this little fall away section, | 2:54:36 | 2:54:42 | |
carrying speed through the last
turn, heading towards the last jump, | 2:54:42 | 2:54:50 | |
over it, big flight, and across the
line. | 2:54:50 | 2:54:58 | |
over it, big flight, and across the
line. Well, the course conditions | 2:54:58 | 2:55:02 | |
are absolutely perfect. These
freezing temperatures have made it | 2:55:02 | 2:55:06 | |
absolutely excellent for making
snow. It's fast, it's grippy, and | 2:55:06 | 2:55:10 | |
it's going to be a great race.
You never lose it, do you? | 2:55:10 | 2:55:16 | |
Congratulations. When I did ski
Sunday my heart was in my mouth | 2:55:16 | 2:55:19 | |
whenever he did his little course
run but he always gets down OK. From | 2:55:19 | 2:55:25 | |
the top of the mountains where there
is a fair bit of wind as I told you, | 2:55:25 | 2:55:29 | |
still no word on whether the men's
downhill will go ahead, it's | 2:55:29 | 2:55:32 | |
scheduled for 2am, but the latest
weather reports we have, wind | 2:55:32 | 2:55:37 | |
predicted to strength of 72 per
hour, -- kilometres per hour, which | 2:55:37 | 2:55:44 | |
means the gondola which takes into
the top of the mountain will not be | 2:55:44 | 2:55:47 | |
working so heart in mouth time as to
whether one of the great Winter | 2:55:47 | 2:55:50 | |
Olympics events will have to be
postponed or whether it will be | 2:55:50 | 2:55:52 | |
worth setting your alarms for 1:50am
to get up and watch it. Don't blame | 2:55:52 | 2:55:57 | |
us if you have a very short sleep!
But no weather affected events | 2:55:57 | 2:56:03 | |
inside the short track arena, and I
have been joined by two free time | 2:56:03 | 2:56:09 | |
Olympians, Sarah Lindsay, John Ely,
who carried the flag | 2:56:09 | 2:56:16 | |
who carried the flag for the Britain
team in the opening ceremony in | 2:56:19 | 2:56:21 | |
Sochi, and Sarah, three Olympic
Games going all the way back to, | 2:56:21 | 2:56:23 | |
whisper it, Salt Lake City! A long
time ago, 16 years of age. You did | 2:56:23 | 2:56:27 | |
my first interview. We were both
much younger but still very | 2:56:27 | 2:56:30 | |
enthusiastic! Tell me, how much,
watching events, makes you long to | 2:56:30 | 2:56:35 | |
get the skates back on. Don't give
anything away but I bet you are | 2:56:35 | 2:56:40 | |
itching to get back out on the ice?
Definitely, seeing the ice out there | 2:56:40 | 2:56:45 | |
and the skaters smiling, it was
great. We shall see. I know you were | 2:56:45 | 2:56:53 | |
on tenterhooks about your former
team-mate Elise Christie who came | 2:56:53 | 2:56:56 | |
into these Olympics are three-time
world champion, but after a | 2:56:56 | 2:57:01 | |
nightmarish games four years ago
could she finally deliver? The | 2:57:01 | 2:57:05 | |
answers would start to come in the
heats of the 500 metres where Elise | 2:57:05 | 2:57:09 | |
and her team-mates Gilmartin and
Thompson were about to compete. | 2:57:09 | 2:57:18 | |
COMMENTATOR: This is the women's 500
metres, Elise Christie of Great | 2:57:18 | 2:57:23 | |
Britain in heat number four, and
that this Kathryn Thomson of Great | 2:57:23 | 2:57:27 | |
Britain in heat number two. | 2:57:27 | 2:57:33 | |
Britain in heat number two. Fontana,
a major threat in this 500 metres | 2:57:35 | 2:57:38 | |
competition going straight to the
front, assuming control, four and a | 2:57:38 | 2:57:42 | |
half laps, but Mack to go now. A bit
of a gap back to Thompson. | 2:57:42 | 2:57:53 | |
of a gap back to Thompson. The Dutch
skater almost disappearing | 2:57:55 | 2:57:58 | |
underneath the barriers. Fontana
staying out of trouble, second place | 2:57:58 | 2:58:03 | |
is the Hungarian, Antonsson has gone
as well, nobody around, and these | 2:58:03 | 2:58:09 | |
two only need to stay upright as
they take the bell because they are | 2:58:09 | 2:58:12 | |
the only two still skating around
the track, and it is Fontana and | 2:58:12 | 2:58:25 | |
also Keszler of hungry her go
through. Two skaters have gone down, | 2:58:25 | 2:58:30 | |
discussions about the eyes. No
argy-bargy, is it the ice? Thompson | 2:58:30 | 2:58:37 | |
just goes down, absolutely no reason
whatsoever. Straightforward for | 2:58:37 | 2:58:43 | |
those two, then, sliding home with a
group to spare, Fontana of Italy and | 2:58:43 | 2:58:48 | |
Keszler of Hungary. The triple world
champion from 2017, Elise Christie | 2:58:48 | 2:58:55 | |
of Great Britain has a tough field
here, | 2:58:55 | 2:59:05 | |
here, Pierron of France, Qu of
China, Shim of Korea. Important for | 2:59:05 | 2:59:23 | |
Elise Christie to make a clean start
for her Olympic campaign. Christie | 2:59:23 | 2:59:29 | |
goes to the front and that is where
she will intend to stay to stay out | 2:59:29 | 2:59:35 | |
of any trouble. Elise Christie
leading and Qu of China in second | 2:59:35 | 2:59:39 | |
place, Shim of Korea, third at the
moment, two and a half laps to go, | 2:59:39 | 2:59:46 | |
Christie out of the gate quickly,
staying out of trouble at the | 2:59:46 | 2:59:49 | |
moment, she has Qu right behind her,
Shim of Korea will have to try to | 2:59:49 | 2:59:56 | |
challenge here, they are going to
take the bell and Christie still | 2:59:56 | 3:00:01 | |
leads, Qu in second place and there
will be a battle with Shim of Korea | 3:00:01 | 3:00:05 | |
trying to go around the outside, top
skating from Elise Christie safely | 3:00:05 | 3:00:10 | |
through to the quarterfinals,
Christie winning it, Qu in second | 3:00:10 | 3:00:15 | |
and Shim of Korea, the local skater,
out of it in third. | 3:00:15 | 3:00:23 | |
She has the fastest time to date,
42.89. If nobody goes any faster in | 3:00:23 | 3:00:31 | |
the quarterfinals she will gain
number one start position. That will | 3:00:31 | 3:00:37 | |
help her. She's done everything she
can. She's stayed out of trouble and | 3:00:37 | 3:00:43 | |
won in a | 3:00:43 | 3:00:48 | |
won in a fast time. It is a new
Olympic record for Elise Christie, | 3:00:50 | 3:00:58 | |
42.872. The European 500 metre
bronze medallist last year is out | 3:00:58 | 3:01:05 | |
there now. | 3:01:05 | 3:01:15 | |
Joint from Korea, the world champion
when she was 16 -- joy. | 3:01:17 | 3:01:27 | |
when she was 16 -- joy. Jaszapati
making a good start. Gilmartin | 3:01:30 | 3:01:34 | |
trying to hold onto second place.
The Russian athlete Malagich has a | 3:01:34 | 3:01:43 | |
lot to do. Gilmartin is trying to
close the gap. Sensing that Choi is | 3:01:43 | 3:01:50 | |
an hurt shoulder. Great racing from
Choi. Gilmartin, all three of them | 3:01:50 | 3:01:58 | |
are out now, chasing behind
Minjeong, it is a case of who can | 3:01:58 | 3:02:05 | |
get up and back in the race the
quickest. Gilmartin has clearly been | 3:02:05 | 3:02:10 | |
injured in the crash, she's
struggling to get going. And the | 3:02:10 | 3:02:15 | |
winner was clearly Minjeong of
Korea. She's the only one who | 3:02:15 | 3:02:21 | |
avoided falling but it's bad news
for Charlotte Gilmartin of Great | 3:02:21 | 3:02:25 | |
Britain who appears to have hurt her
right hip, her right side as she | 3:02:25 | 3:02:31 | |
slowly skates around slowly and
forlornly, as we look at Jaszapati | 3:02:31 | 3:02:37 | |
from Hungary. The judges will have
another look at it here. Trying to | 3:02:37 | 3:02:44 | |
squeeze on the inside, Malagich,
pushing Charlotte with her. The | 3:02:44 | 3:02:50 | |
Hungarian is off-balance and all
three of them go down. Interesting | 3:02:50 | 3:02:54 | |
to see what happens here because it
appears from this angle of the | 3:02:54 | 3:02:57 | |
camera that Malagich was the
culprit. And I think she knows it | 3:02:57 | 3:03:03 | |
because she's walked straight off
the ice. It looks like Jaszapati | 3:03:03 | 3:03:06 | |
caused the problem. Jaszapati almost
looks like she fell without any | 3:03:06 | 3:03:10 | |
contact. And it's a penalty.
Gilmartin is given the penalty. She | 3:03:10 | 3:03:18 | |
is disqualified, the British skater,
disqualified. Minjeong goes through. | 3:03:18 | 3:03:28 | |
Jaszapati as well. Your thoughts?
Charlotte is the one who came from | 3:03:28 | 3:03:33 | |
the outside to the inside. But
disappointing for Charlotte. And | 3:03:33 | 3:03:39 | |
again, Minjeong has skated a new
Olympic record in this heat. | 3:03:39 | 3:03:47 | |
Minjeong and Christie have been
superbly impressive. They are the | 3:03:47 | 3:03:52 | |
fastest two in the first round of
the ladies 500 metres. | 3:03:52 | 3:03:55 | |
fastest two in the first round of
the ladies 500 metres. It was an | 3:03:55 | 3:03:57 | |
Olympic record from Elise for about
half an hour. You two are the | 3:03:57 | 3:04:05 | |
sprinters, the 500 metres was your
favourite but this is Elise's least | 3:04:05 | 3:04:09 | |
favourite, the only one where she
isn't a champion but a fantastic | 3:04:09 | 3:04:12 | |
art. Great start, she's flying from
the start which she has been | 3:04:12 | 3:04:17 | |
art. Great start, she's flying from
the start which she has been | 3:04:17 | 3:04:18 | |
practising. She says that the 500
metres is her favourite but the | 3:04:18 | 3:04:22 | |
start, if you aren't a natural, can
hold you back but she is flying and | 3:04:22 | 3:04:26 | |
I don't think she's at full
throttle. How much still to come in | 3:04:26 | 3:04:30 | |
that case, Jon? Although she's still
not the champion she is the record | 3:04:30 | 3:04:36 | |
holder so there is some more to
come. I think when there are more | 3:04:36 | 3:04:39 | |
people around her and it is closer
racing as the competition goes on | 3:04:39 | 3:04:44 | |
you will see the real Elise coming
out. Today was laying a marker. It | 3:04:44 | 3:04:49 | |
is flat speed, out and out
adrenaline charged speeding. The way | 3:04:49 | 3:04:53 | |
that she races, from the front, what
gives her the advantage in terms of | 3:04:53 | 3:05:00 | |
the start? I think once you've made
it to the front, she has the fastest | 3:05:00 | 3:05:05 | |
top speed. So you | 3:05:05 | 3:05:08 | |
it to the front, she has the fastest
top speed. So you know, there aren't | 3:05:08 | 3:05:09 | |
many people who have any hope of
thinking about passing her soap as | 3:05:09 | 3:05:12 | |
long as she gets in front, she's
safe. How key is her reputation in | 3:05:12 | 3:05:18 | |
Korea now and on the World Cup
circuit? She's a triple world | 3:05:18 | 3:05:22 | |
champion but reputations tend to
proceed people. How revered is she | 3:05:22 | 3:05:27 | |
amongst the Korean crowd because
quarter years ago it was a different | 3:05:27 | 3:05:30 | |
story. I think she is revered,
coming here with the world title, | 3:05:30 | 3:05:35 | |
it's like she's going to have a
target on her. It is one thing to | 3:05:35 | 3:05:39 | |
face up to. When the racing gets
tight, they will be thinking, it is | 3:05:39 | 3:05:44 | |
Elise, follow her rather than
attacking her. Almost letting her | 3:05:44 | 3:05:49 | |
win the gold, hopefully, and try and
get silver. She has competition in | 3:05:49 | 3:05:54 | |
Minjeong who beat her to the time
today. Looking forward to them going | 3:05:54 | 3:05:57 | |
head-to-head. Absolutely,
quarterfinals and semifinals and | 3:05:57 | 3:06:02 | |
final from ten o'clock on Tuesday.
Charlotte Gilmartin didn't make it, | 3:06:02 | 3:06:06 | |
we were discussing the correct way
to fall and one of the worst ways is | 3:06:06 | 3:06:11 | |
when you are in the colliding area
with somebody else. Difficult to | 3:06:11 | 3:06:15 | |
keep your arms and legs together.
The biggest danger is when more | 3:06:15 | 3:06:19 | |
keep your arms and legs together.
The biggest danger is when more than | 3:06:19 | 3:06:19 | |
one person goes into the barrier
together. You do practice falling | 3:06:19 | 3:06:24 | |
and keeping your arms and legs in,
so you take the body impact against | 3:06:24 | 3:06:28 | |
the barrier but when two or three
people are going at once, it's | 3:06:28 | 3:06:32 | |
difficult to stay safe. I think
Charlotte is OK. You never know, it | 3:06:32 | 3:06:37 | |
takes a bit of time, with the
adrenaline and the nerves, you might | 3:06:37 | 3:06:41 | |
get up and gate off. Hopefully she's
feeling OK. How | 3:06:41 | 3:06:47 | |
get up and gate off. Hopefully she's
feeling OK. How controversial was | 3:06:47 | 3:06:47 | |
the disqualification? I think from
us being British bands, we wanted | 3:06:47 | 3:06:54 | |
Charlotte to do well, we can see
that we wanted it to go in her | 3:06:54 | 3:06:58 | |
favour but like she said in her
interview, it is a 50-50 call. I | 3:06:58 | 3:07:02 | |
think where she struggled, she let
the Russian girl come alongside her | 3:07:02 | 3:07:08 | |
out of the corner before and then
she opened the door and then she has | 3:07:08 | 3:07:11 | |
to come back across her and it's in
the referee's hands. Elise going for | 3:07:11 | 3:07:17 | |
gold on Tuesday. There was one gold
medal today, in the men's 1500 | 3:07:17 | 3:07:21 | |
metres. Farrell Treacy was the
British racer involved in that one, | 3:07:21 | 3:07:27 | |
the 22-year-old was in his first
Games and there was a | 3:07:27 | 3:07:31 | |
disqualification for him as well. | 3:07:31 | 3:07:33 | |
Games and there was a
disqualification for him as well. | 3:07:33 | 3:07:34 | |
Can you analyse this one. I think it
would be great for him to have gone | 3:07:34 | 3:07:38 | |
out and put in a good performance
but it hasn't happened to him | 3:07:38 | 3:07:41 | |
although he has the 1000 metres to
go. Almost shaky legs going out, in | 3:07:41 | 3:07:48 | |
his first cap next Games. | 3:07:48 | 3:07:50 | |
go. Almost shaky legs going out, in
his first cap next Games. The first | 3:07:50 | 3:07:51 | |
rays of the competition, so waiting
to go out, the crowd building up, I | 3:07:51 | 3:07:55 | |
don't know what would have gone
through his mind but it would have | 3:07:55 | 3:08:00 | |
been sweaty palms and jelly legs.
For him to have a fall is | 3:08:00 | 3:08:04 | |
disappointing but he's strong, he'll
come back and he has a great team. | 3:08:04 | 3:08:09 | |
It is a real School of Hard Knocks,
your sport! You have to be rebuffed. | 3:08:09 | 3:08:13 | |
One of the most robust of the lot,
the man from Canada, the defending | 3:08:13 | 3:08:20 | |
champion in the 1500 metres and he
is the old man of the sport now. | 3:08:20 | 3:08:24 | |
There are some teenagers on his tail
now. | 3:08:24 | 3:08:31 | |
The men's final for the 1500 metres.
For the first time, there are nine | 3:08:36 | 3:08:42 | |
skaters but what a line-up. | 3:08:42 | 3:08:51 | |
skaters but what a line-up. Hamelin,
looking to become the oldest ever | 3:08:51 | 3:08:55 | |
Olympic short track medallist at the
age of 33. His compatriot from | 3:08:55 | 3:08:59 | |
Canada is in front, Girard. | 3:08:59 | 3:09:07 | |
Canada is in front, Girard. Knegt of
the Netherlands in fourth place. | 3:09:07 | 3:09:14 | |
the Netherlands in fourth place. Lim
behind him. | 3:09:14 | 3:09:16 | |
Hamelin is tucked in second place
behind his team-mate. He lives to | 3:09:22 | 3:09:25 | |
lead this kind of race. Not
especially fast, a lab time of 9.7. | 3:09:25 | 3:09:33 | |
The Canadians, one and two. | 3:09:33 | 3:09:43 | |
Elistratov has been encrypted but
now the Koreans are making their | 3:09:44 | 3:09:47 | |
move. Going around the outside now,
leading the Olympic final with half | 3:09:47 | 3:09:56 | |
a dozen laps to go, Hwang. Nine
skaters in the final. Knegt moving | 3:09:56 | 3:10:04 | |
around the outside with five laps to
go. What a race this is going to be, | 3:10:04 | 3:10:10 | |
faster and faster. Knegt is in the
box seat. Being followed down the | 3:10:10 | 3:10:21 | |
straight by Lim Hyojun. Elistratov
is back in fifth now. Three lacks to | 3:10:21 | 3:10:29 | |
go, Knegt in front, the world this
distance. One of the Koreans has | 3:10:29 | 3:10:38 | |
gone. Still leading out front, Lim
Hyojun from Knegt. Elistratov is in | 3:10:38 | 3:10:45 | |
third. They have one more lap to go.
Korea leading the way. Towards the | 3:10:45 | 3:10:51 | |
line, Lim Hyojun comes towards the
finish and takes it from Knegt, who | 3:10:51 | 3:10:58 | |
gets the Silver Medal. | 3:10:58 | 3:11:04 | |
gets the Silver Medal. Elistratov
from Russia taking the bronze and | 3:11:04 | 3:11:05 | |
the hosts have struck gold in the
Ice Arena. Knegt reflecting on what | 3:11:05 | 3:11:14 | |
might have been. | 3:11:14 | 3:11:20 | |
might have been. Gold for Lim Hyojun
of South Korea. You can see Knegt on | 3:11:20 | 3:11:24 | |
the outside, the Korean making a
mistake taking the Frenchman down | 3:11:24 | 3:11:29 | |
with him. The blue riband event, the
1500 metres. It confirms that Lim | 3:11:29 | 3:11:41 | |
Hyojun in an Olympic record time is
the winner. Knegt of the Netherlands | 3:11:41 | 3:11:47 | |
has silver to add to the bronze 3-1
in Sochi four years ago. And | 3:11:47 | 3:11:51 | |
Elistratov the former champion,
winning the bronze medal. Charles | 3:11:51 | 3:12:00 | |
Hamelin, the Olympic champion from
four years ago, disqualified. It is | 3:12:00 | 3:12:07 | |
Korea's first gold | 3:12:07 | 3:12:08 | |
four years ago, disqualified. It is
Korea's first gold medal of the | 3:12:08 | 3:12:09 | |
games. That's going to make things
interesting, you skated in Korea. | 3:12:09 | 3:12:13 | |
How obsessed is the nation about
short track, Jon? They are obsessed, | 3:12:13 | 3:12:20 | |
I went for the Junior World
Championships and it was crazy, the | 3:12:20 | 3:12:24 | |
crowd are very knowledgeable and
they get behind their athletes. That | 3:12:24 | 3:12:26 | |
will set them up for the whole cap
next Games. Does it put pressure on | 3:12:26 | 3:12:36 | |
you or does it make you raise your
game? It is nice for the home nation | 3:12:36 | 3:12:44 | |
to win a gold medal and it is a gym
in this environment in the ice rink. | 3:12:44 | 3:12:49 | |
Are you positive about Elise? Wu
definitely. Let's look at the medal | 3:12:49 | 3:12:58 | |
table, which in fact | 3:12:58 | 3:13:00 | |
definitely. Let's look at the medal
table, which in fact went into Day | 3:13:00 | 3:13:01 | |
two. The Netherlands are at the top,
having enjoyed a rather lovely day. | 3:13:01 | 3:13:07 | |
Second place behind Germany, getting
two or medals, which came in the | 3:13:07 | 3:13:17 | |
normal ski jumping, nothing normal
about 90 metres! Germany in pole | 3:13:17 | 3:13:20 | |
position. There is a pocket sized
version of the best and worst and | 3:13:20 | 3:13:25 | |
most bizarre bits at 7pm and then
you have Radzi on BBC Four. And set | 3:13:25 | 3:13:35 | |
your alarm clocks, 2am, the men's
downhill if it | 3:13:35 | 3:13:40 | |
your alarm clocks, 2am, the men's
downhill if it is on. See you later! | 3:13:40 | 3:13:45 | |
Charlotte Kalla becoming the
skiathlon Winter Olympics champion. | 3:13:50 | 3:13:56 | |
And the hosts have struck gold! | 3:13:56 | 3:14:02 | |
And the hosts have struck gold! This
is great | 3:14:04 | 3:14:05 |